Name: Geoffrey
Gender: Male
Usage: Geoffrey is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Geoffrey are in general originating from Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Malta, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Geoffrey across the world, see Geoffroy.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Geoffrey is: Gift of peace, Divine peace.
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Numerology of the first name Geoffrey: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Geoffrey is ranked on the 1,226th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 400100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.006% of the population. The name Geoffrey has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Geoffrey for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Geoffrey is 8 November.
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History and Origin
Geoffrey, often spelled Jeffrey, and abbreviated as Geoff or Jeff or Geof, is a male given name in the English-speaking world.
The common confusion between the first names Geoffroy "Geoffrey" and Godefroy "Godfrey" is due to analogy.
Medieval variants on "Geoffrey" include "Jeffrey" and "Jeffery". Jeffrey is sometimes spelled with one f as in Jefrey. Jeffrey and its variants are found as surnames, usually as a patronymic ending in -s (e.g., Jefferies, Jaffrays); The surname Jefferson is also a patronymic version of the given name, literally "son of Jeffer", the name formant being a mutation of Jeffery.
The name was introduced to England by the Normans after William the Conqueror's conquest of England in 1066. It was particularly popular among English nobility.
English: of Germanic (Frankish and Lombard) origin, introduced to Britain by the Normans. It was in regular use among the counts of Anjou, ancestors of the English royal house of Plantagenet, who were descended from Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–51). Godefroy de Bouillon, leader of the First Crusade, is commemorated in Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (1581). It was a particularly popular name in England and France in the later Middle Ages; notable bearers in England include the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400) and in Wales the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth (Gaufridus Monemutensis; d. 1155). The original form and meaning of the elements of which the name is composed are disputed. According to one theory, the name is merely a variant of Godfrey; others derive the first part from the Germanic elements gawia territory, walah stranger, or gisil pledge. Medieval forms can be found to support all these theories, and it is possible that several names have fallen together, or that the name was subjected to reanalysis by folk etymology at an early date.
Variant: Jeffrey.
Cognates: French: Geoffroi. Italian: Goffredo. Spanish, Portuguese: Godofredo. Welsh: Sieffre. Irish Gaelic: Siothrún.
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