Jefferies

Jefferies is the 6,513th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,008 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 59,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,008
Rank: 6,513th
How common: 1 in 59,700
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Variant of Jeffries.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jefferies described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 48.0%
Black, not Hispanic 43.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Jefferies

Richard Jefferies (1848–1887)British naturalist and writer
Jim Jefferies (born 1977)Australian-American stand-up comedian, actor and writer

People named Jefferies with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jefferies

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.