Jeffrey
An English name of Germanic root, carrying the sense "pledge of peace". Fewer than 400 men in Poland go by it, and it surfaces so seldom that most Poles will never meet one: the last few boys were born back in the 2010s.
Jeffrey Pronunciation
What Jeffrey means
Where Jeffrey comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jeffrey is the English form of the older name Geoffrey, and both grow from Germanic roots. The "-frey" ending goes back to frid, a word for peace. From that comes the reading the name still keeps: a pledge of peace.
Norman scribes brought Geoffrey to England after 1066, and the spelling with a J hardened into place over later centuries. The parent form belonged to Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote the Canterbury Tales in the 1300s. English kept the name in steady use, and by the twentieth century Jeffrey was a common given name in Britain and America.
The old promise sits inside it still. A Jeffrey may spend his life far from anything to do with treaties or truces, yet the name still reports back to that Germanic frid, to the pledge of peace it spells out.
How many people are named Jeffrey
1 in 58323 men in Poland is named Jeffrey. 366 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1563 among male names.
Jeffrey's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jeffrey as a middle name
Jeffrey is a first name for 366 men in Poland and a middle name for another 77, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 812th, between Dante (77) and Sven (77).
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#810 Franek78
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#811 Dante77
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#812 Jeffrey77
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#813 Sven77
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#814 Arkady76