English

Alternative forms

• Jeffrey
• Jeffery
• (archaic) Geffrey

Proper noun

Geoffrey

1. A male given name. Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
   • 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back. page 98:

     "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?"

     "Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey; there's some sound in it."

   • 1996 Mary Higgins Clark: Let me Call You Sweetheart. ISBN 0671568175 page 207:

     Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.

   • 2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:

     His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. 'Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.

Related terms

• Geoff
• Godfrey
• Jefferson

Translations

References

1. ↑ Louis Guinet, Les emprunts gallo-romans au germanique (du Template:Ier à la fin du Template:s-), éditions Klincksieck, 1982.
2. ↑ Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, 1951; édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet Librairie Larousse 1980, p. 287b - 288a.