Jeff

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Male Male Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English short form of Jeffrey (see Geoffrey) [1] [2]

Related Names

Jef Danish Swedish
Jeff
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jeff
Genitive: Jeffs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jeff
Genitive: Jeffin
Partitive: Jeffiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jeff
Genitive: Jeffs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jeff
Genitive: Jeffs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 85 people were named Jeff (percentage of first or only given name: 89 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
397 597 0 0 397 597
Denmark Denmark[6]
470
n.a.
0
n.a.
470
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
41 0 0
n.a.
41
Iceland Iceland[8]
2 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
28
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
28
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Jeff.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no