Geoffrey
About 54,534 American babies have been named Geoffrey since 1895, most of them around 1975. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 46,000 Geoffreys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Geoffrey boys named Geoffrey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 54,534
- Estimated living today
- 46,000
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1975
- Best rank
- 167th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 140 / 54,394
How old the living Geoffreys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 54,534 babies given the name since 1895, about 46,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 7,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Middle English Geffrey, from an Old French aristocratic name, Geoffroi (> West, East), itself from Proto-French forms (latinized in -us) Jotfredus, Jozsfredus, Josfredus (10th century) and Jof[f]redus, Jofridus, Jaufredus, Geffredus (11th century), and ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. The second element is *friþuz (“peace, sanctuary”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Geoffreys
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)14th century English poet and author
- Geoffrey Rush (born 1951)Australian actor
- Geoffrey Hinton (born 1947)British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
- Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100–1155)Historian and Bishop of St Asaph, Wales (c.1095–1155)
- Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113–1151)Duke of Normandy
- Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996)British Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1148–1213)knight and historian
- Geoffrey Kondogbia (born 1993)French footballer
People named Geoffrey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Geoffrey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Geoffrey is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.8×), Connecticut (2.3×), Massachusetts (1.9×), Rhode Island (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1975
The most popular boys’ names the year Geoffrey peaked:
Geoffrey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Geoffrey | 27,870 | 41st |
| New Zealand boys | Geoffrey | 4,439 | 27th |
| Belgium boys | Geoffrey | 734 | 92nd |
| Ireland boys | Geoffrey | 690 | 116th |
| England and Wales boys | Geoffrey | 447 | 571st |
| Scotland boys | Geoffrey | 173 | 132nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Geoffrey | 3 | 271st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Geoffrey: rank by region
In 2009, Geoffrey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Geoffrey | 391 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Geoffrey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Geoffrey | 16 | 32 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Geoffrey lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 239 men called Geoffrey were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Geoffrey | 61 | 0.061 | 1,113 |
| Málaga | Geoffrey | 45 | 0.051 | 1,075 |
| Almería | Geoffrey | 19 | 0.048 | 1,243 |
| Palmas, Las | Geoffrey | 15 | 0.026 | 2,730 |
| Balears, Illes | Geoffrey | 11 | 0.018 | 2,901 |
| Girona | Geoffrey | 7 | 0.017 | 2,753 |
Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Geoffrey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.