Given name · also Germanic
Jeoffrey
“a man of peace”
In English use, Jeoffrey has a related form in Geoffrey. In English use, Geoffrey carries the interpretation “a man of peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Jeoffrey has a related form in Geoffrey. In English use, Geoffrey carries the interpretation “a man of peace.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Jeoffrey comes from Germanic, and ultimately from Germanic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1948. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jeoffrey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 244
- 244 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 417 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.
Jeoffrey’s family of names
In English usage, Jeoffrey has a related form in Jeffrey. In English usage, Jeoffrey has a related form in Geoffrey. In French usage, Jeoffrey has a conventional equivalent in the German form Gottfried.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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