Jefferies
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr Geuffroi/Jeufroi/Jefroi, representing OG names later latinized as Galfridus/Gaufridus and Goisfridus/Gosfridus; first attested Goisfridus 1086 DB
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈdʒɛfɹiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jefferies is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States1 in 14Kas Jeffries
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jefferies itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 934K (inferred from the name graph)
23,510 named Jeffries, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jeffries in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OFr Geuffroi/Jeufroi/Jefroi, representing OG names later latinized as Galfridus/Gaufridus and Goisfridus/Gosfridus; first attested Goisfridus 1086 DB
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jefferies counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 23,510as Jeffries | 1 in 14K | 24K | Jeffries | 17 |
| ES Spain | 40 | 1 in 1.3M | 40 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 37as Jeffreys | 1 in 20K | 37 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 23as Jeffries | 1 in 242K | 23 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 22as Jeffries | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 1as Jeffreys | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | — |
23,510 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jefferies is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, patronymic from Jeffrey.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Richard Jefferiesb. 1848GBBritish naturalist and writer (1848–1887)
- Richard Manning Jefferiesb. 1889USstate legislator and 101st Governor of South Carolina from 1942 to 1943
- Matt Jefferiesb. 1921USAmerican artist (1921–2003)
- Jim Jefferiesb. 1950GBScottish footballer and manager (born 1950)
- Richard Jefferiesb. 1956USAmerican screenwriter
- Gregg Jefferiesb. 1967USAmerican baseball player
- Chris Jefferiesb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Axcil Jefferiesb. 1994ZWracecar driver
- Nikkita Lyonsb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Mike Jefferiesb. 2000GBBritish screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,306 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,809 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40 | #52,571 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #51,690 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jefferies mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr Geuffroi/Jeufroi/Jefroi, representing OG names later latinized as Galfridus/Gaufridus and Goisfridus/Gosfridus; first attested Goisfridus 1086 DB Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Jefferies?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɛfɹiz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jefferies have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Jeffries, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jefferies most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jefferies is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 934 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jefferies?
- In Spain, the national register counted 40 people named Jefferies, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jefferiesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jefferies”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.