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The JEFFS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,417 18129 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 194 19756 0 4
Change since 1880 +1223 +1627 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 872 1881 0.005 53
United Kingdom 2,698 2306 0.006 59
Top States for JEFFS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 547 611 0.024 245
California 135 20405 0.000 4
Idaho 95 2256 0.007 73
Michigan 65 22449 0.001 7
Florida 57 31755 0.000 4
Top States for JEFFS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 547 611 0.024 245
Idaho 95 2256 0.007 73
Oregon 39 12479 0.001 11
Wyoming 5 14677 0.001 10
Nebraska 14 19781 0.001 8

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of JEFFS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JEFFS 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 JEFFS 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 JEFFS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 16 1.13
White (Hispanic) 16 1.13
Black/African American 5 0.35
White (Caucasian) 1,372 96.82
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of JEFFS in historical publications

JEFF. JEFFS. See Jeffery.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JEFFS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JEFFS.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JEFFS

The following words are slight variants of JEFFS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.