Jefferson
Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one. English at root: a surname turned first name meaning "son of Jeffrey".
Jefferson Pronunciation
What Jefferson means
Where Jefferson comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jefferson began as a surname. In medieval England, it marked a man as the son of Jeffrey, a spelling of Geoffrey brought over by Norman settlers. The meaning stayed literal for a long time: son of Jeffrey, a family tag handed from father to child.
Then it crossed into first names. Much of that shift honors one man, Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. American parents in the nineteenth century started giving his surname to their sons, and the word took on a second life as a given name.
The Germanic root sits under it all. Geoffrey traces back to old Germanic elements and ends in frid, meaning peace, reshaped by French and English speakers until Jeffrey appeared. Jefferson keeps that chain visible.
On a Polish class register, the name reads as foreign and plain. It has no Polish diminutive of its own. What it offers is the sense underneath: son of Jeffrey.
How many people are named Jefferson
1 in 179380 men in Poland is named Jefferson. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3089 among male names.
Jefferson as a middle name
Jefferson is a first name for 119 men in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2795th, between Jean-Michel (12) and Jeremiusz (12).
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#2793 Jawad12
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#2794 Jean-Michel12
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#2795 Jefferson12
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#2796 Jeremiusz12
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#2797 Joaquín12