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Geoffrey Gender Male Word/name English Meaning "peaceful place," or "peaceful traveler," Related names Jeffrey, Geoff, Jeff
"Geoffrey ", often spelled Jeffrey and abbreviated as "Geoff " or "Jeff" , is a male given name in the English -speaking world. Geoffrey originated from an Old French form of a Germanic name. Although the name's second element is "frid", meaning "peace", the first element of the name is disputed. Possible words that it originated from include "gawia" ("territory"), "walah" ("stranger"), "gisil" ("hostage") or "god". It is considered possible that more than one of these words were used as elements of the same name. If "god" was among them, "Geoffrey" would likely be related to the name "Godfrey ".[ 1] Medieval variants on "Geoffrey" include "Jeffrey"[ 2] and "Jeffery". Jeffrey is sometimes spelled with one f as in Jefrey . Jeffrey and its variants are found as surnames, usually as a patronymic ending in -s (e.g., Jefferies, Jaffrays).
The name was introduced to England by the Normans after William the Conqueror 's conquest of England in 1066. It was particularly popular among English nobility .[citation needed ]
Variations
The variations of the name include
Gefrey
Geoff
Geoffaree
Geoffree
Geoffri
Geophrey
Gioffre
Jaffray
Jef
Jeff
Jefferson
Jeffery
Jeffree
Jeffreigh
Jeffrey
Jeffri
Jeffry
Jefrey
Jofré
Usage of names
In television and film
Geoffrey Beevers , British actor who has appeared in many different television roles
Geoffrey Brown , software inventor major contribution to placeshifting television
Geoffrey Diamond , Guitar/Bass, The Nuclear Holocausts
Geoff Dolan , New Zealand actor, singer and corporate entertainer
Geoffrey Hayes , English television presenter and actor
Geoffrey Holder , actor
Geoffrey Lewis , American character actor who has been popular since the early 1970s
Geoffrey Perkins , British radio and television producer
Geoff Edwards , American actor/game-show host
Geoff Morrell (actor) , Australian film and theatre actor
Geoff Morrell (Pentagon) , former reporter, Pentagon spokesman
Geoff Murphy , New Zealand film director, writer and assistant director
Geoff Peterson , robotic sidekick on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Geoffrey Rush , Australian Academy Award and Emmy Award winning actor
Geoff Thompson , writer, film director and self-defence expert
Geoffrey Wright , Australian film director born in Melbourne in 1959
Jeffrey Combs , American character actor best known for his horror film roles
Jeffrey Hunter , film and television actor
Jeffrey Nordling , American actor
Jeffrey Tambor , American actor
Jeff Albertson , character from The Simpsons , more commonly known as Comic Book Guy
Jeff Anderson , American actor who appeared as Randal Graves in Kevin Smith 's Clerks series
Jeff Bridges , American actor
Jeff Chandler (actor) , 1950s American film actor
Jeff Cohen , child actor who appeared as Chunk in the 1985 movie The Goonies
Jeff Conaway , American actor
Jeff Daniels , American actor
Jeff Dunham , American ventriloquist
Jeff East , American actor, appeared in Superman as the young Clark Kent
Jeff Foxworthy , American comedian and actor
Jeff Garlin , American comedic actor
Jeff Goldblum , American film actor
Jeff Hyslop , Canadian television and theatre actor
Jeff Maxwell , American actor (Igor from M.A.S.H.)
Jeff McCarthy , American character actor who has appeared in television, theatre and films
Jeff Murdoch , character in the first three seasons of the sitcom Coupling
Jeff Probst , American television personality
Jeff Reinhart , character in the Saw movie series
Jeff Thisted , American game-show host
Jeff Yagher , American actor
In sports
Geoff Bent , one of the eight Manchester United players that lost their lives in the Munich air disaster
Geoff Blum , infielder in Major League Baseball
Geoff Bodine , NASCAR driver
Geoffrey Boycott , former England cricketer
Geoff Capes , former British shot put champion and two-time World's Strongest Man winner
Geoff Horsfield , English football player
Geoff Howarth , New Zealand cricketer
Geoff Hurst , the only footballer who ever scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final
Geoff Jenkins , outfielder in Major League Baseball
Geoff Rowley , professional skateboarder
Geoff Ogilvy , Australian golfer, winner of the 2006 US Open.
Geoff Roes , ultra-runner, Western States 100 Endurance Run record holder
Geoff Sanderson , forward in the National Hockey League
Geoff Schwartz , American football player (Carolina Panthers )
Jeff Agoos , American soccer player
Jeff Bagwell , baseball player
Jeff Bes , Canadian ice hockey player
Jeff Burton , NASCAR racer
Jeff Chandler (boxer) , boxing champion
Jeff Conine , pro baseball player
Jeff Elliott , British decathlete and pole vaulter
Jeff Fenech , boxer
Jeff Francis , baseball player
Jeff Francoeur , American baseball player
Jeff Garcia , football player
Jeff Gordon , NASCAR racer
Jeff Guiel , Canadian baseball player
Jeff Halpern , American hockey player (Montreal Canadians)
Jeff Hardy , American professional wrestler
Jeff Jarrett , American professional wrestler
Jeff Kent , American MVP major league baseball player
Jeff Newman (baseball) , American major league baseball All Star catcher & first baseman and manager
Jeff Otis , American football player
Jeff Schiebler , Canadian long-distance runner
Jeff Speakman , American actor and accomplished martial artist in the art of kempo
Jeff Stork , American volleyball player
Jeff Thomson , Australian cricketer
Jeff Van Gundy , US NBA coach
Jeff Williams , Australian-born, left-handed pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team
In literature
Geoffrey Chaucer , English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, and diplomat
Geoffrey Moorhouse (1931–2009), British writer
Geoff Johns , American writer of comic books
Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare , English author and former politician
Jeffrey Carver , American science fiction author
Jeffrey Daniels (author) , Chicago-raised African American poet, artist, and professor
Jeffrey Eugenides , American novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish origins
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson , Sanskrit specialist and author who trained as a psychoanalyst in Toronto
In music
Geoff Barrow , producer/instrumentalist for the band, Portishead
Geoff Berner , Canadian singer-songwriter on the accordion
Geoff Downes , Keyboard player known for his work with The Buggles , Yes and Asia
Geoff Emerick , recording studio audio engineer , who is best known for his work with the Beatles
Geoff Healey , Australian actor, composer and musician
Geoff Nicholls , former keyboard player for Black Sabbath
Geoff Rickly , lead singer and lyricist of the Post-Hardcore band Thursday
Geoff Tate , lead singer for hard rock band Queensryche
DJ Jazzy Jeff , American DJ/turntablist record producer
Jeff Hinds , Calypsonian
Jeff Beck , electric guitarist
Jeff Buckley Ame,rican singer-songwriter
Jeff Graham , Canadian radio DJ
Jeff Hanneman , guitarist for U.S. thrash metal band Slayer
Jeff Healey , Canadian blues-rock guitarist
Jeff Loomis , lead guitarist for heavy metal band Nevermore
Jeff Lynne , British singer-songwriter and record producer
Jeff Mangum , American singer-songwriter and founder of Neutral Milk Hotel
Jeff Porcaro , highly regarded session drummer and founding member of Toto
Jeff Tweedy , American singer-songwriter and founding member of Wilco
In politics
In history
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton , British historian of the Tudor period
Geoffrey Norman Blainey , Australian historian and political commentator
Geoffrey of Monmouth , Welsh cleric and chronicler
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou , Duke of Normandy, founder of the House of Plantagenet
Geoffrey (Archbishop of York) , illegitimate son of King Henry II of England , Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of York
Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany , son of King Henry II of England and brother of King Richard and King John .
Gioffre Borgia , Prince of Squillace , illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and brother of Lucrezia Borgia , Cesare Borgia and Giovanni Borgia
In military
In other fields
Jeff Cooper (colonel) , former United States Marine and firearms expert
Jeff Luers , American anarchist, environmental activist, and arsonist
Jeff Nuttall , British 1960s counter-culture figure
Jeff Hawkins , founder of Palm Computing and Handspring
Jeff Minter , British computer and video game designer and programmer
Jeff K. , fictional character created by Richard Kyanka
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