Geoffrey
Just 87 men in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given in recent years: most Poles have never met one. Germanic at root, it means "peace", or "god's peace".
Geoffrey Pronunciation
What Geoffrey means
Where Geoffrey comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Geoffrey came into England with the Normans, a Germanic name that Old French had already reshaped into Geoffroi. Its final part goes back to Germanic frid, meaning peace, and medieval readers took it further as God's peace. The first element stayed uncertain. Scholars still argue over it, so the sense that held on was the one nobody disputed.
The name sits at the start of English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in the 1380s, and school anthologies have kept his first name in print ever since. Earlier still, Geoffrey of Monmouth compiled his history of the British kings around 1136 and handed Europe much of its Arthur.
Geoffrey has no Polish diminutive and no imieniny in the Polish calendar. On a class register in Kraków it would read as plainly foreign, an English import among the Kubas and Zosias. What the name brought with it stays legible anyway: from that old Germanic frid, peace.
How many people are named Geoffrey
1 in 245358 men in Poland is named Geoffrey. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3773 among male names.
Geoffrey as a middle name
Geoffrey is a first name for 87 men in Poland and a middle name for another 59, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 956th, between Gaspar (59) and Harrison (59).
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#954 Emile59
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#955 Gaspar59
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#956 Geoffrey59
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#957 Harrison59
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#958 Maxim59