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OT: Meet a Woman Named “Jeffrey”
By JLP | March 26, 2007
Back in December of last year, I wrote a post titled How Many People Have Your Name? In that post I commented about the fact that their stats said that 99.83% of the people with the name “Jeffrey” were male and that I couldn’t believe that a woman would have the name Jeffrey. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, that post received the following comment from a woman:
My parents…. in their right mind… named me, their only daughter… Jeffrey….
My mother wanted to name me after an actress from the 40’s 50’s whose name was “Jeff Donnell”. As a matter of fact… she went through 4 pregnancies to get to me… I have 3 older brothers.
In my 45 years, I have never met another girl named Jeffrey… although I always keep my eyes open. I have had a lot of fun with it, AND there has been a lot of confusion in my life as a result. I was almost forced to register for the Selective Service out of High School and when I went to college.. I got lots of “join our fraternity” letters….
As an adult, the name is unique and I’m thankful for it. If I had the opportunity to change my name… I wouldn’t because I know my mother was only thinking the best for me.
Thanks for your blog…. It was great reading!
Jeffrey
Boy I bet she has fun with that name! At least they spell it right! LOL!
Now we can all say we know a woman named Jeffrey.
Topics: Miscellaneous | 5 Comments »
March 26th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I knew a girl in college named Mike. Full name was Michael. It wasn’t a saint’s name from confirmation either. (Like ‘Sister Margaret James’ or something like that.)
March 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
My old ob/gyn was a woman named Christopher. Her staff was always explaining that she was a woman to concerned new patients.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
There was a member of a band called five iron frenzy who was known as “Jeff the girl” –> but she was actually called leanor..
February 8th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
well I am a girl and my name is Jeffri
And I myelf have never met another girl named Jeffri either
August 6th, 2010 at 11:28 am
So I just talked with a woman named Jeffrey on the phone. It was so peculiar that I just had to google it to see if there were any others out there. So I guess that makes three. Straight up nuts.