Geoffrey


Gender:
Origin: German
1224 famous people named Geoffrey found on Wikipedia.
54087 male, 140 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 2044-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 167-th in year 1975
Used in: English, French

Meanings

A male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”.

Geoffrey is a French and English masculine given name. It is the Anglo-Norman form of the Germanic compound *gudą 'god' and *friþuz 'peace'. It is a cognate of Dutch Godfried and German Gottfried.
It was introduced to Norman England alongside the form Godfrey. It was also Anglicised as Jeffrey from an early time. Popularity of the name declined after the medieval period, but it was revived in the 20th century. Modern hypocorisms include Geoff, Jeff, or Geof.
Jeffrey and its variants are found as surnames, usually as a patronymic ending in -s (eg Jefferies, Jaffrays); The surname Jefferson is also a patronymic version of the given name.

Masc. personal name, attested in England by late 11c., from Old French Geuffroi, from Medieval Latin Gaufridus, from Old High German gewi "district" (German Gau; see gau) + fridu "peace" (see Frederick).

Heavenly peace, peaceful ruler, God's peace.

Famous People: 1224 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Geoffrey Rush 1951 Australian actor and film producer
2 Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 English poet
3 Geoffrey Arend 1978 American actor
4 Geoffrey Zakarian 1959 American chef
5 Geoffrey Lewis 1935 American actor
6 Geoffrey Hughes 1944 Actor
7 Geoffrey Agundogbia S.P 1993 French footballer
8 Geoffrey Durham 1929 British magician
9 Geoffrey Holder 1930 Trinidadian-American actor and dancer
10 Geoffrey Boycott 1940 Cricket player of England
11 Geoffrey Howe 1926 British Conservative politician
12 Geoffrey Bayldon 1924 British actor
13 Geoffrey Edelsten 1943 Australian businessman
14 Geoffrey of Monmouth 1100 Welsh cleric and historiographer
15 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou 1113 Duke of Normandy
16 Geoffrey Hayes 1942 Television presenter, actor
17 Geoffrey Hinton 1947 Computer scientist and psychologist from the UK
18 Geoffrey Robertson 1946 Australian lawyer
19 Geoffrey Owens 1961 American actor
20 Geoffrey Fieger 1950 American activist
21 Geoffrey Bowers 1953 American attorney, fired after being diagnosed with AIDS
22 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany 1158 English noble, Duke of Brittany jure uxoris
23 Geoffrey Hutchings 1939 British theatre, film and television actor
24 Geoffrey Blake 1962 American film and television actor
25 Geoffrey Bawa 1919 Sri Lankan architect
26 Geoffrey Deuel 1943 Actor
27 Geoffrey Keen 1916 British actor
28 Geoffrey Whitehead 1939 English actor
29 Geoffrey Davies 1942 British actor
30 Geoffrey Marcy 1954 American astronomer
31 Geoffrey Canada 1952 American activist
32 Geoffrey Horne 1933 American actor
33 Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 1970 Australian singer
34 Geoffrey Thorne 1970 American writer
35 Geoffrey Streatfeild 1975 British actor
36 Geoffrey Fisher 1887 Archbishop of Canterbury
37 Geoffrey Beene 1927 American fashion designer
38 Geoffrey de Havilland 1882 English aircraft engineer
39 Geoffrey Mutai 1981 Kenyan long distance runner
40 Geoffrey Wellum 1921 British fighter pilot and writer
41 Geoffrey Hill 1932 English poet and professor
42 Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais 1000 French noble
43 Geoffrey Elton 1921 Historian
44 Geoffrey Beevers 1941 British actor
45 Geoffrey 1152 Archbishop of York
46 Geoffrey Perkins 1953 Comedy writer, producer and actor
47 Geoffrey Blainey 1930 Australian historian
48 Geoffrey Sauveaux 1986 French actor
49 Geoffrey McGivern 1952 British actor
50 Geoffrey Wigdor 1982 American actor
51 Geoffrey Kendal 1909 British actor and theatre manager
52 Geoffrey Miller 1965 American psychologist
53 Geoffrey Ma 1956 Hong Kong judge
54 Geoffrey S. Fletcher 1970 American screenwriter
55 Geoffrey Piet French actor
56 Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey 1880 British judge
57 Geoffrey Boothroyd 1925 British writer
58 Geoffrey Lancashire 1933 British television scriptwriter
59 Geoffrey Toone 1910 Irish actor
60 Geoffrey Pole 1502 English knight
61 Geoffrey Leech 1936 British linguist
62 Geoffrey Unsworth 1914 British cinematographer
63 Geoffrey Boleyn 1406 Lord Mayor of London, 1457/8
64 Geoffrey Wilkinson 1921 British Nobel laureate in Chemistry
65 Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou 1000 Count of Anjou from 960 to 987
66 Geoffrey R. Pyatt 1963 American diplomat
67 Geoffrey Pyke 1893 English inventor & spy
68 Geoffrey Lower 1963 American actor
69 Geoffrey Burridge 1948 British actor
70 Geoffrey West 1940 British physicist
71 Geoffrey Wright 1959 Australian film director
72 Geoffrey Parker 1943 British military historian
73 Geoffrey Dickens 1931 British politician
74 Geoffrey Chew 1924 American theoretical physicist
75 Geoffrey Mujangi Bia 1989 Belgian international association football player
76 Geoffrey Scott 1942 American actor
77 Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex 1092 English noble
78 Geoffrey Moore 1966 British actor
79 Geoffrey Keynes 1887 English surgeon and bibliophile
80 Geoffrey A. Landis 1955 American scientist
81 Geoffrey Ward 1940 American historian, author and film writer
82 Geoffrey Lumsden 1914 British actor
83 Geoffrey Dummer 1909 British electronics engineer
84 Geoffrey Keating 1569 Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
85 Geoffrey Wolff 1937 American writer
86 Geoffrey W. Jackson
87 Geoffrey Jellicoe 1900 British landscape architect
88 Geoffrey Hinsliff 1937 British actor
89 Geoffrey Oryema 1953 Ugandan musician
90 Geoffrey Page 1920 British military aviator
91 Geoffrey Munn 1953 British jewellery specialist
92 Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex 1162 English noble
93 Geoffrey Onyeama 1956 Nigerian politician
94 Geoffrey D. Miller 1949 Retired United States Army Major General
95 Geoffrey Prime 1938 Soviet spy and GCHQ employee
96 Geoffrey Keyes 1888 United States Army officer, American football coach
97 Geoffrey R. Stone 1946 American legal scholar
98 Geoffrey James Clark 1981 American Film and Television Producer, Rights Activist
99 Geoffrey Sax 2000 British film and television director
100 Geoffrey Burgon 1941 British composer
101 Geoffrey of Villehardouin 1160 Knight and historian
102 Geoffrey Household 1900 British writer
103 Geoffrey Hartman 1929 American academic
104 Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster 1906 British politician
105 Geoffrey Spicer-Simson 1876 Royal Navy officer
106 Geoffrey Roberts 1952 British historian
107 Geoffrey Couët 1988 French actor
108 Geoffrey K. Pullum 1945 British-American linguist
109 Geoffrey Beattie British psychologist
110 Geoffrey Colvin American writer
111 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy 1883 British saint
112 Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford 1912 Irish Baron
113 Geoffrey Smith 1928 British gardener
114 Geoffrey Hosking 1942 British historian
115 Geoffrey Kent Founder, chairman, and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent; founding member and former chairman of the World Travel and Tourism Council
116 Geoffrey Rippon 1924 British politician
117 Geoffrey Nunberg 1945 American linguist
118 Geoffrey Hodgson 1946 British economist
119 Geoffrey Wilder
120 Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany 1000 French noble
121 Geoffrey Castillion 1991 Dutch professional association football player
122 Geoffrey Rose 1926 Epidemiologist
123 Geoffrey Hoppe 1955 American spiritualist
124 Geoffrey Trease 1909 British writer
125 Geoffrey Sumner 1908 British actor
126 Geoffrey de Mandeville 1100 British noble
127 Geoffrey Blancaneaux 1998 French tennis player
128 Geoffrey Wheatcroft 1945 British journalist
129 Geoffrey Giuliano 1953 American writer and actor
130 Geoffrey Grigson 1905 British poet, writer, critic and naturalist
131 Geoffrey Burbidge 1925 British astronomer
132 Geoffrey Ashe 1923 British historian
133 Geoffrey Jourdren 1986 Footballer
134 Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor 1992 Kenyan long-distance runner
135 Geoffrey Kizito 1993 Ugandan footballer
136 Geoffrey Vickers 1894 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
137 Geoffrey Golden 1994 Musician
138 Geoffrey Handley 1975 Hong Kong businessman
139 Geoffrey Kirk 1921 British classical scholar
140 Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane 1918 British judge
141 Geoffrey Vigier 1976 French actor
142 Geoffrey Nettle 1950 Australian judge
143 Geoffrey Pearson 1927 Canadian diplomat
144 Geoffrey Keezer 1970 American musician
145 Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou 1006 Count of Anjou
146 Geoffrey Chater 1921 British actor
147 Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou 1040 French noble
148 Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba Zambian politician
149 Geoffrey Gorer 1905 British anthropologist
150 Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex English noble
151 Geoffrey Hodson 1886 New Zealand occultist
152 Geoffrey Farmer 1967 Canadian artist
153 Geoffrey Tozer 1954 Australian pianist
154 Geoffrey Shakerley 1932 British photographer
155 Geoffrey Bolton 1931 Australian historian
156 Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes 1917 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
157 Geoffrey Willans 1911 English writer
158 Geoffrey le Baker 1301 English historian
159 Geoffrey Sampson 1944 British academic
160 Geoffrey Kelly 1956 Canadian songwriter
161 Geoffrey Barraclough 1908 British historian
162 Geoffrey Wawro 1960 American historian
163 Geoffrey Richardson 1950 British musician
164 Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1876 British climber
165 Geoffrey Dawson 1874 British newspaper editor
166 Geoffrey Forrest Hughes 1895 Australian aviator and flying ace of the First World War
167 Geoffrey Grimmett 1950 Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge and Master, Downing College, Cambridge
168 Geoffrey Hallowes 1918 World War II Special Operations Executive officer; businessman
169 Geoffrey Warnock 1923 Philosopher and academic administrator
170 Geoffrey Wheeler 1930 Broadcaster
171 Geoffrey Alderman 1944 Academic historian
172 Geoffrey de Montbray Norman nobleman, secular prelate, soldier and administrator
173 Geoffrey de Clinton
174 Geoffrey Loftus 1945 American psychologist
175 Geoffrey Barkas 1896 British filmmaker and camoufleur
176 Geoffrey D. Stephenson 1910 RAF officer
177 Geoffrey Bindman 1933 British lawyer
178 Geoffrey Dear 1937 British police officer
179 Geoffrey Langlands 1917 Retired British Major
180 Geoffrey Jenkins 1920 South African writer
181 Geoffrey Bennington 1956 French philosopher
182 Geoffrey Salmond 1878 Royal Air Force air marshals
183 Geoffrey Parsons 1929 Australian musician
184 Geoffrey Van Orden 1945 British politician
185 Geoffrey Baker 1912 Army officer
186 Geoffrey Ling Medical doctor
187 Geoffrey Ostergaard 1926 British political scientist
188 Geoffrey Layton 1884 Royal Navy admiral
189 Geoffrey Archer 1944 British writer
190 Geoffrey Adams 1957 British diplomat
191 Geoffrey Baer
192 Geoffrey Cowan 1942 American lawyer and academic
193 Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther 1907 British economist and journalist
194 Geoffrey Rowell 1943 Bishop in Europe; Bishop of Basingstoke; British Anglican bishop
195 Geoffrey Raisman 1939 British neuroscientist
196 Geoffrey Hoyle 1942 British writer
197 Geoffrey Somerset, 6th Baron Raglan 1932 British peer
198 Geoffrey Mander 1882 British politician
199 Geoffrey FitzClarence, 3rd Earl of Munster 1859 British Earl
200 Geoffrey Nice 1945 Barrister, activist