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Origin of Jeff

Jeff is short for Jeffrey which is a common English name which originated from either:

• Germanic origin: (Specifically Teutonic origin, a Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family) using a combination of 3 Old German names meaning district, travel, or peaceful plege
• French origin: A variant form of Geoffrey (which is a Middle French variant of Godfrey or Gottfried) which is the Anglo-Norma form of the Germanic compound of 'god' (gudą) and 'peace' (friþuz).

The meaning of Jeffrey varies slightly per region:

• American Meaning: God's Peace
• French Meaning: Divine Peace
• German Meaning: District, Traveler, or Peaceful Pledge
• Anglo-Saxon Meaning: Peaceful Gift

Popularity of Jeffrey in the United States

Common Variants of Jeffrey (Alphabetical Order)

• Geffrey
• Geoff
• Geoffrey
• Geoffry
• Geofry
• Godfrey
• Jaffrays
• Jeffeory
• Jefferey
• Jefferies
• Jefferson
• Jeffery
• Jeffree
• Jeffrie
• Jeffries
• Jeffro
• Jeffry
• Jeffy
• Jefre
• Jefri
• Jefry

Common Nicknames for Jeffrey

• JJ
• Jiffy Lube
• Jiffy
• Jerf
• Jeffie
• Jeffers
• Jeff
• Jef
• Frey
• Feffy

Famous Jeffs

• Jeff Bezos - Amazon CEO

Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon.com, the world's largest internet sales company which is also the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services through Amazon Web Services, and founder of Blue Origin a human spaceflight startup company. As of October 2017, Jeff Bezos is also the richest person in the world.

He previously graduated from Princeton University with Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. After graduation, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field working for companies such as Fitel, Bankers Trust, and hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co.

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• Jeff Dean - Computer Scientist, Google Senior Fellow

Jeff Dean is one of key engineers at Google. Here are some true facts associated with Jeff Dean (Source: Quora):

• Google Search was Jeff Dean's Noogler Project
• Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of Pi
• Once, in early 2002, when the Google index servers went down, Jeff Dean answered user queries manually for two hours. Evals showed a quality improvement of 5 points.

Jeff Dean designed and implemented many portions of the company's advertising, crawling, indexing, query serving systems, and distributed computing infrastructure. He has worked on projects such as MapReduce, BigTable, Google Brain, TensorFlow, Spanner, Google Translate, and LevelDB.

Jeff Dean previously graduated from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in Computer science and a Bachelors of Science from the University of Minnesota in Computer Science and Economics. He previously worked at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory and worked at the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDs and developing software and statistical modeling and forecasting for HIV/AIDS.

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• Jeff Dunham - Ventriloquist

Jeff Dunham is an American ventriloquist and comedian who has been featured on various television shows like Comedy Central Presents, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, and others.

Jeff Dunham was ranked by Forbes.com as the third highest-paid comedian in the United States behind Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. He achieved the Guinness Book of World Records record for "Most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour" for his Spark of Insanity tour.

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• Jeff Gordon - NASCAR driver

Jeff Gordon is a former professional NASCAR driver who drove the No. 24 Chevrolet and is third on the all-time Cup wins list with 93 career wins, the most in the last 40 years in NASCAR. He has won the Sprint (Monster Energy) Cup 4 times and Daytona 500 3 times. In 1998 Jeff Gordon was on NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers list and in 2008 was ranked as 10th in the 25 Greatest Drivers of All Time with Foxsports.com naming him the 5th best NASCAR driver of all time.

Jeff Gordon was born in Vallejo, California and raised in Pittsboro, Indiana. He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and is currently an announcer for Fox NASCAR.

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• Jeff Foxworthy - Comedian

Jeff Foxworthy is a Comedian who is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and Ron White. Jeff Foxworthy has released 6 comedy albums with his first 2 certified 3x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Foxworthy was born in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Georgia Tech, but left before graduating. Afterwards he worked for 5 years in mainframe computer maintenance at IBM before starting his comedy career.

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• "Jeffrey" Ja Rule - American Rapper, Singer, Songwriter

"Jeffrey" Ja Rule is an American Rapper, Singer, and song writer. He has earned 4 Grammy nominations and 6 top 10 albums with several hits in the top 20 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart including:

• Always on Time - Grammy-nominated #1 hit
• Mesmerize
• Wonderful
• Ain't it Funny
• I'm Real
• Between Me and You

Ja Rule was born in the Queens borough of New York City and made headlines for recently promoting the Fyre Festival which experienced problems related to security, food, and accommodations along with 8 lawsuits.

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• "Jeffrey" J. J. Abrams - American Film Director

"Jeffrey" J. J. Abrams is an American film director known for a variety of movies such as:

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
• Star Trek Into the Darkness (2013)
• Lost (2004 - 2010)
• Star Trek (2009)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Mission Impossible III (2006)
• Armageddon (1998)

Abrams was born in New York City, but raised in Los Angeles as the son of television producer Gerald W. Abrams and executive producer Carol Ann Abrams.

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• Jeff Bridges - Actor

Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award winning American actor who is well known for his portrayal as The Dude in The Big Lebowski. Other films that Jeff Bridges has starred in:

• The Giver (2014)
• Tron: Legacy (2010)
• Crazy Heart (2009)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Seabiscuit (2003)
• Fearless (1993)

Jeff Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California and the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and actress Dorothy Bridges.

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• Jeff Goldblum - Independence Day

Jeff Goldblum is an American actor who has received nominations for an Oscar, an Emmy, a Genie, and a Drama Desk Award throughout his career. His most famous movies include:

• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Independence Day (1996)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Goldblum was born and raised in West Homestead, Pennsylvania. He moved to New York City at 17 to become an actor and is also an accomplished jazz pianist.

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• "Jeff" Tatum - "Jefe" from 22 Jump Street

Jefe is a fictional character played by Channing Tatum in 22 Jump Street.

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Origin of Chen

Chen, meaning "old" is one of the most common East Asian last names with a Chinese origin. It is the 5th most common last name in China and most common last name in:

• Taiwan
• Singapore
• Guangdong
• Zhejiang
• Fujian
• Hong Kong
• Xiamen

Chen comes from Gui, one of the last names of Gui Man (Duke Hu of Chen), a descendant of Emperor Shun. When Chen was conquered by the Chu state in 479 B.C. the people of Chen took on the last name.

Chen Baxian later created the Chen Dynasty (557-589) which was eventually destroyed by the Sui Dynasty. Fujian was the original home of the Chen clan before it migrated under Trần Kinh to Dai Viet and set up the Trần dynasty which ruled Vietnam.

Chen also is the 150th most popular name in the U.S. with 169,580 people in the 2010 Census using the last name Chen.

Whew. Glad you made it through that. I promise I didn't make any of those names or places up.

Common Variations of Chen

• Chan (Cantonese)
• Chang (Peru)
• Chern
• Chin (Hakka in Singapore, Malaysia, Taishanese, Japanese)
• Chun (Cantonese)
• Ding (Fuzhou)
• Dunn (Taiwanese, Mingnamyu, Holo)
• Gin (Taishanese)
• Jin (Korean)
• Sen (Limbu)
• Tan (Hokkien, Teochew)
• Tang (Teochew, Cambodia, Thailand)
• Ting (Fuzhou)
• Tran (Vietnamese)
• Zen (Wu)

Note: Not going to lie here, I thought these variations seemed pretty different, but Wikipedia promises these are all the same last name.

Common Nicknames for Chen

• Cheny
• Chen Chen
• Chen Dawg
• Chen Money
• Chenzilla
• Chenchilla
• Chinny Chin Chen

Just kidding - all of those are made up since Google couldn't find any Chen nicknames.

Famous Chens

• Jackie Chan - Actor and Martial Artist

Jackie Chan is an actor, martial artist, director, stuntman, producer, stuntmnat, and singer who is famous for his acrobatic fighting style and acting in over 150 films. Some of his films include:

• Rush Hour (1998)
• Rush Hour 2 (2001)
• Rush hour 3 (2007)
• Shanghai Noon (2000)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• Drunken Master (1978)
• Drunken Master II (1994)
• Police Story (1985)
• Police Story 2 (1988)
• Police Story 3: Super Cop
• Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)
• New Police Story (2004)
• Police Story: Lockdown (2013)
• Who Am I? (1998)
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
• Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
• (Full List of Jackie Chan Movies)

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong and began his career in small roles when he was five as a child actor. He started appearing in movies at the age of eight and has been acting in movies ever since.

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• Steven Chen - Youtube Co-founder

Steven Chen is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of Youtube. He was originally an employee at PayPal and an early employee at Facebook, but left after several months to start YouTube. Youtube was later sold to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion.

Steven was born in Taipei, Taiwan, but later graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and now lives in San Francisco, CA.

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• Chen Shui-bian - ex President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Chen Shui-bian was previously the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. He is also the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ending Kuomintang's (KMT) 50+ years of continuous rule in Taiwan.

Chen was born to an impoverished tenant farming family in Tainan City. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a Law degree and passed the bar exams his junior year with the highest score and became Taiwan's youngest lawyer.

• Priscilla Chan - Pediatrician and Philanthropist

Priscilla is the wife of the co-founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and is an American pediatrician and philanthropist. She and her husband have pledged more than $1.6 Billion to charities and as of December 2016, they pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares valued at $45 Billion to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve health and education.

Priscilla was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University, graduated medical school at University of California, San Francisco, and now lives in Palo Alto, CA.

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• Chen Ding

Chen Ding is a Chinese racewalker who won a gold medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics with a new Olympic Record of 1:18:46 in the 20km racewalk event. He was born in Yunan China in 1992.

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• Chen - Ranged Intelligence Hero in Dota 2

  Chen is a ranged intelligence hero, known as a support that is difficult to learn due to heavy reliance on micromanagement, but once mastered, can become a powerful ganker, and is one of the strongest early pushers in game.

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