Given name
Godofredo
“God is peace”
Godofredo is a variant of Godfrey. One German interpretation is “God is peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Godofredo is a variant of Godfrey. One German interpretation is “God is peace.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Godofredo is a variant of Godfrey. An origin associated with Godfrey is German.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Gothic 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (“good”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Godofredo is a variant of Godfrey. The history of Godfrey gives this family its wider story. Godfrey was in use during the Middle Ages.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Godofredo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1985. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,061 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Godofredo’s family of names
Godofredo shares a linguistic root with Geoffrey. In Spanish usage, Godofredo has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jeffrey. In Spanish usage, Godofredo has a conventional equivalent in the German form Geoffrey.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Godofredo has relatives in 26 languages.
27 related names in 26 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- JeffreyEnglish
- Geoffreycognate · English, German
- GottfriedGerman
- Guðfríðurequivalent
- GodfrydPolish
- GodefroyFrench
- GottfridSwedish
- GotfridSerbian, Hungarian
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- ГотфридSerbian, Russian
- GodofredOccitan
- GorreeManx
- GodefridusLatin
- GoffredoItalian
- GofraidhIrish
- GuðfreðurIcelandic
- GodfriedDutch
- ΓοδεφρείδοςGreek
- GoraidhScottish Gaelic
- GoiridhScottish Gaelic
- GotfredoEsperanto
- GotfredDanish
- GodfridCroatian, Serbo-Croatian
- GodofreuCatalan
- গডফ্রেBengali
- GootjeLow German, nds-de
- GodofréAragonese, Catalan
- JofréCatalan
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