Baby name

FADING BOY · GERMANIC-ENGLISH
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Jeffrey

/JEF · ree/


“Peace or pledge”

Standard English form of Geoffrey, from Old Germanic Godfrey or from a Frankish name meaning 'peace' or 'pledge'; the dominant American spelling.

jeff

gentle

How it ages.

Peak American mid-century - the name of a generation, not a trend.

The cultural moment.

Very common in the US from the 1950s-1980s; now rare for newborns.