About the name Jeffery
Jeffery belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Jeffery first appears in Social Security records in 1894. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #42 in 1966, and in 2024 150 babies received the name — 230,434 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.