Given name
Joffrey
“a man of peace”
Joffrey is a variant of Jeffrey. One German interpretation is “a man of peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Joffrey is a variant of Jeffrey. One German interpretation is “a man of peace.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Joffrey through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 77
- 77 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 10 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 7 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219 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.
Joffrey’s family of names
Joffrey has a related form in Jeffrey. In French usage, Joffrey has a conventional equivalent in the German form Gottfried.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Joffrey
- Joffrey LauvergneFrench basketball player (born 1991)
- Joffrey LupulCanadian ice hockey playerborn 1983
- Joffrey CuffautFrench footballerborn 1988
- Joffrey BaziéBurkinabé footballerborn 2003
- Joffrey Pollet-VillardFrench freestyle skierborn 1992
- Joffrey Verbruggenactorborn 1989
Characters named Joffrey: Joffrey Baratheon (A Song of Ice and Fire).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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