MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jef mean?
Jef is an established Dutch shortening of Jozef. Jozef continues Joseph, whose Hebrew base Yosef concerns adding or increasing.
The concise form belongs to the Joseph family rather than automatically to Jeffrey; resemblance in sound does not make those two histories interchangeable.
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Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Dutch
People with the name Jef
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Jef Gaitan
Filipino actress
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
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Names in this collection
- Jed♂Beloved of the Lord; short for Jedidiah
- Jeff♂Short form of Jeffrey or Geoffrey
- Jet♂♀Dutch familiar form of Henriëtte or Mariëtte
- Jean♀God is gracious; related to John and Jeanne
- Jenn♀Short form of Jennifer
- Jess♂Short form of Jesse, Jessica or Jessamy
- Jett♂♀Jet aircraft or jet-black; English word-name
- Jelly♀Word name from English jelly
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Recorded use
- Wikidata
- 1 person records with this given name · Q18744833 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.