Jeffries

At the 2020 census, 22,137 Americans bore the surname Jeffries — 1,580th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,500.

By the numbers

People: 22,137
Rank: 1,580th
How common: 1 in 13,500
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.9%
Black, not Hispanic 28.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Jeffries

Hakeem Jeffries (born 1970)American politician
Lionel Jeffries (1926–2010)English actor, screenwriter and film director
John Jeffries (1744–1819)Boston physician, scientist, and military surgeon
James J. Jeffries (1875–1953)American boxer
Herb Jeffries (1913–2014)American singer and actor
Tony Jeffries (born 1985)English boxer
Jared Jeffries (born 1981)American basketball player
Leah Jeffries (born 2009)American actress and model

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

Surnames like Jeffries

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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.