Jeffrie
Masculine · “Peace”
Jeffrie is given to both — 934 boys and 86 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Jeffrie is the English spelling of a name the French wrote with a G, given a soft ending by an American century that liked them. The name underneath is medieval, aristocratic and — unusually for a name that famous — not fully explained.
How old is the name Jeffrie?
Jeffrie first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Jeffrie alive today was born around 1967, making them about 58 years old. About 800 people named Jeffrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeffrie most popular?
Jeffrie peaked in 1961, reaching #1179 nationally. See the whole 1961 chart.
Where it comes from
From Gaufrid to Jeffrie
The story of Jeffrie
The name's most notorious bearer left a phrase behind him. George Jeffreys, a brilliant and savage judge, was sent west after a failed rebellion to try the men who had joined it, and the sessions he held became known as the Bloody Assizes: hundreds condemned, hundreds more transported, all of it done at speed. When his king fled three years later, Jeffreys tried to escape the country disguised as a sailor, was recognized in a tavern, and died in the Tower. The spelling side of the name is calmer. Geoffrey with a G is the French form the Normans brought; Jeffrey with a J is what English did once it stopped consulting them, and both spellings have been said exactly the same way for six hundred years.
Meaningscholars disagree
Peace, joined to something nobody has settled
The second half is clear: frid, peace. The first half is not, and medieval scribes were already confusing the candidates — a word for territory, a word for a stranger, a word for a pledge. Two or three separate Germanic names fell together into one medieval spelling, and no amount of work has separated them since.
How the name formed
- Gaufrid
- Geoffrey
- Jeffrey
- Jeffrie
Related forms: Geoffroy · Goffredo · Gottfried · Godofredo
Pronouncing Jeffrie
JEF-ree
Two syllables, stress at the front. The -ie ending sounds the same as -ey and -y; all three spellings are identical in the mouth.
Nicknames for Jeffrie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1921
- Most boys named
- 196145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1179reached in 1961
- Change vs 2013
- 0.0%5 in 2017, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jeffrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Geoffroy in French — same name
- Goffredo in Italian — same name
- Gottfried in German — related form
- Godofredo in Spanish — related form
Jeffries among us
people named Jeffrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jeffrie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The name behind it is ancient, established and carried without difficulty anywhere in the West.
- Jeff is one of the most unpretentious short forms in English and works at any age.
- It has real forms in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
- Three endings are in circulation — ie, ey and y — and his will be written wrong more often than right.
- The -ie ending is read as a woman's spelling by most Americans now, and this spelling is in fact recorded for both.
- The meaning of the first half is genuinely unknown, so any confident gloss he is given is invented.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeffries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Jeffrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeffrie in 2025?
- Jeffrie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jeffrie with classmates?
- Jeffrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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