Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Jeffrey
/JEF · ree/
Meaning
“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.
Nicknames
jeff
Vibe
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.