Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Geoffrey

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Origin and Meaning

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]

Related Names

Geoffrey ♂
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Geoffroi ♂
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Jeffery ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jeffrey ♂
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jeffri ♂
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 Faroese Finish
Jófreyr ♂
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 Old Norse
Jofrøy ♂
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 Norwegian

See also Jeff, Jófrøðr

Further Information

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

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 17 people were named Geoffrey (percentage of first or only given name: 53 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
107 226 0 2 107 224
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 162 0 0
n.a.
 162
Denmark Denmark[7]
66
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 66
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
80
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 80
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
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.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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