Geoffroy

Boy · Germanic, through Old French

Geoffroy

Say it: zhoh-FRWAH

Meaning

Uncertain. Probably Germanic, with a second element frid 'peace'; the first element is unclear and the name was confused with Godefroy.

Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.

A favourite of the Angevin and Norman nobility.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450

Used by

French

The family of the name

Other spellings: Geoffroi

English	Geoffrey
Italian	Goffredo

Famous bearers

Geoffroy Plantagenêt, Count of Anjou

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Where this comes from

Royal and noble genealogies
Medieval European charters and records

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