The JEFFERY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,048	3611	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	1,202	4678	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+7846	+1067	+0.001	+10
Other Countries
Australia	3,037	514	0.019	186
United Kingdom	9,125	656	0.02	199

Top States for JEFFERY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	854	2811	0.004	41
California	793	3922	0.002	23
Michigan	587	2005	0.006	59
Ohio	492	2956	0.004	43
Florida	486	4354	0.003	30
Top States for JEFFERY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	288	1290	0.011	108
Utah	222	1435	0.010	99
South Carolina	248	2513	0.006	62
Alabama	263	2542	0.006	59
Michigan	587	2005	0.006	59

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JEFFERY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JEFFERY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JEFFERY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JEFFERY by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JEFFERY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JEFFERY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JEFFERY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JEFFERY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	166	1.83
Mixed Race	150	1.66
Asian/Pacific	79	0.87
Native American/Alaskan	67	0.74
White (Caucasian)	6,331	69.97
Black/African American	2,255	24.92

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JEFFERY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JEFFERY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JEFFERY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.