Geoffrey
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Old French aristocratic name, Geoffroi, of Germanic origin, introduced to Britain by the Normans. Original form and meaning is disputed—possible variant of Godfrey, but most likely that several similar names have fallen together.
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Geoffrey
- A male given name. Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
- 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back. page 98:
- "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?"
- "Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey; there's some sound in it."
- 1996 Mary Higgins Clark: Let me Call You Sweetheart. ISBN 0671568175 page 207:
- Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.
- 2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:
- His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. 'Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.
- 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back. page 98:
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