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Irish : reduced form of McGiffin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Dhuibhfinn ‘son of Duibhfionn’.English : from a pet form of the Norman personal name Geffrei (see Jeffrey).
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Variant spelling of English Jefferey, probably JEFFREY means "God's peace."Â
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English : from a short form of the personal name Jeffrey.
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English : from the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s), composed of the Germanic elements god, got ‘god’ + frid(u), fred ‘peace’. See also Jeffrey.Americanized form of Irish Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh, patronymics from the Irish equivalent of Godfrey (see 1 above), borrowed from the Vikings.Americanized form of the French surname Godefroi, of the same origin as 1.An Irish family of the name Godfrey originated in Romney, Kent. The first of them to settle in Ireland was Colonel John Godfrey, who was rewarded with lands in Kerry for his services in the 1641 rebellion.
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English : patronymic from Mann 1 and 2.Irish : adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó MainnÃn ‘descendant of MainnÃn’, probably an assimilated form of MainchÃn, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó MaingÃn and Anglicized as Mangan.Anstice Manning, widow of Richard Manning of Dartmouth, England, came to MA with her children in 1679. Her great-great-grandson Robert, born at Salem, MA, in 1784, was the uncle and protector of author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Another early bearer of the relatively common British name was Jeffrey Manning, one of the earliest settlers in Piscataway township, Middlesex Co., NJ. His great-grandson James Manning (1738–91) was a founder and the first president of Rhode Island College (Brown University).
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English : from a pet form of the personal name Jeffrey.
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Peaceful. variant of jeffrey
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English : patronymic from Jeffrey.
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English : patronymic from Jeffrey.The third U.S. president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and VA statesman Thomas Jefferson relates in his memoirs a family tradition that he was descended from Welsh stock on his father’s side, while noting the relative infrequency of the name Jefferson in Wales. It is a characteristically northern English name. A Jefferson was among the burgesses who attended the first representative assembly at Jamestown, VA, in 1619.
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Peaceful. See also Jeffrey.
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English : patronymic from Jeffrey.
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English : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Jeffrey.
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English : from a Norman personal name that appears in Middle English as Geffrey and in Old French as Je(u)froi. Some authorities regard this as no more than a palatalized form of Godfrey, but early forms such as Galfridus and Gaufridus point to a first element from Germanic gala ‘to sing’ or gawi ‘region’, ‘territory’. It is possible that several originally distinct names have fallen together in the same form.
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English : patronymic from Jeffrey.
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English : variant of Jeffrey.
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English : variant spelling of Jeffries.
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Teutonic American Anglo Saxon English French German
God's peace.
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English : variant spelling of Jeffrey.
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Americanized spelling of Danish and North German Jepsen.English
Americanized spelling of Danish and North German Jepsen.English : patronymic from a short form of Jeffrey.
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Turkish form of Arabic Mahmud, MEHMED means "praiseworthy."
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Useful; Worth
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One who can Fulfill All Wish of Others
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, German, Greek
Princess
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Victory over Bondage
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Honey
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Brave
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English : occupational name for guard, a variant of Ward.
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Abbreviation of Carol and Caroline from the masculine Charles meaning manly.
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