Given name
Jefry
“a man of peace”
Jefry is a variant of Jeffrey. One German interpretation is “a man of peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jefry is a variant of Jeffrey. One German interpretation is “a man of peace.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jefry through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 283
- 283 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,258 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,258 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 832 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jefry
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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