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English name of Germanic (Frankish and Lombard) origin of uncertain meaning. Theories include:
1) English form of Gaufrid [1]
2) English form of Walafrid [1]
3) English combination of Gaufrid and Walafrid [2]
4) English form of Gisalfrid [1]
5) English form of Godafrid (unlikely) [1] [3]
Geoffrey | ♂ |
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English |
Geoffroi | ♂ |
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English |
Jeffery | ♂ |
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Jeffrey | ♂ |
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Jeffri | ♂ |
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Jófreyr | ♂ |
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Jofrøy | ♂ |
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Geoffrey is a name used among immigrants from English-speaking countries, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[5] |
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107 | 226 | 0 | 2 | 107 | 224 |
Finland[6] |
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n.a. |
162 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
162 |
Denmark[7] |
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66 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
66 | n.a. |
Iceland[8] |
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5 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
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80 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
80 | n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
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0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Geoffrey.