girls:
140 births since 1963
#5576 (2nd percentile)
boys:
54.3k births since 1895
#468 (90th percentile)
overall:
54.5k births since 1895
#1021 (87th percentile)
The name Geoffrey is the #1,021 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54,469 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 86.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #468 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 54,329 births since 1895. For girls, it ranks #5,576 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 140 births since 1963.
Geoffrey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for boys and 1963 for girls). Birth data for Geoffrey is available in 118 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Geoffrey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Geoffrey reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 75.3% percentile (ranked #164) with 860 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 860 births per million (ranked 75.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1985, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Geoffrey ranks #863 for boys (5.3% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 3.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Geoffrey reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #770) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Geoffrey".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Geoffrey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Geoffrey is pronounced as JEH-free, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUH-free, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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