Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Geoffrey
/JEF · ree/
Meaning
“God's peace”
Medieval French form of Germanic Godfrey or Gottfried, meaning God's peace; the spelling with a 'G' distinguishes the French-influenced medieval form from the Old English Jeffrey.
Nicknames
geoff
Vibe
strongelegant
How it ages.
Peaked in the UK in the mid-20th century; feels solidly vintage now without current revival energy.
The cultural moment.
Top 50 in the UK through the 1960s and 1970s; rare for newborns since the 1990s.