Gotfryd
Fewer than 200 Polish men carry Gotfryd, and no boy has been given it this century: meeting one would stay with you. It came from the German Gottfried, two old Germanic pieces for God and peace, still holding the meaning "peace of god".
Gotfryd Pronunciation
Gotfryd is pronounced GOTF-riht (/ˈgɔtfrɨt/).
What Gotfryd means
Where Gotfryd comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gotfryd comes from Germanic roots, joining a word for God with a word for peace. That pairing gives the short meaning still attached today: peace of god. The name reached Polish through the German Gottfried, and the spelling reshaped it, the doubled letters flattened and the ending trimmed to one hard sound.
In Poland the name stayed rare. It appeared more among families near the German-speaking borderlands. Its cognate Gottfried belonged to the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, born in Leipzig in 1646, and to Gottfried von Strassburg, who wrote the medieval romance Tristan.
Picture a school register where one Gotfryd sits among the Jakubs and the Piotrs, a name most classmates have to read twice. The two Germanic pieces still hold their old sense: God, and peace.
When Gotfryd celebrates name day
Gotfryd appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 13 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Gotfryd
1 in 107809 men in Poland is named Gotfryd. 198 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2236 among male names.
Gotfryd as a middle name
Gotfryd is a first name for 198 men in Poland and a middle name for another 123, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 629th, between Francois (123) and Ray (123).
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#627 Ivanov124
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#628 Francois123
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#629 Gotfryd123
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#630 Ray123
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#631 Cristian122