Meaning not yet researched.
Geoffrey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #167 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #167 in 1975; #3,599 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Geoffrey in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,599 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #167.
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Geoffrey: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #167 in 1975 · most boys in one year: 1,395 (1975).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Geoffrey, making it the 3,599th most common boys’ name of the year, down 533 places from #3,066 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 40 boys named Geoffrey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #167, reached in 1975. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,395. For comparison, it was #1,832 in 2015 and #264 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Geoffrey in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 54,534 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 12,797 babies named Geoffrey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 539 US boys were named Geoffrey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeffrey (983,099 babies since 1880) and Geoff (1,549 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Geoffery, Geoffry and Geofrey are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Geoff and Jeff.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Geoffery (1,514), Geoffry (677), Geofrey (141), Joffrey (77), Goeffrey (49).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 31 | #3,599 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,066 |
| 2023 | — | — | 53 | #2,522 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,732 |
| 2021 | — | — | 40 | #3,039 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,702 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,435 |
| 2018 | — | — | 70 | #2,054 |
| 2017 | — | — | 76 | #1,901 |
| 2016 | — | — | 80 | #1,866 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,832 |
| 2014 | — | — | 97 | #1,613 |
| 2013 | — | — | 104 | #1,538 |
| 2012 | — | — | 120 | #1,393 |
| 2011 | — | — | 115 | #1,432 |
| 2010 | — | — | 103 | #1,552 |
| 2009 | — | — | 150 | #1,205 |
| 2008 | — | — | 116 | #1,437 |
| 2007 | — | — | 153 | #1,159 |
| 2006 | — | — | 170 | #1,056 |
| 2005 | — | — | 174 | #992 |
| 2004 | — | — | 209 | #850 |
| 2003 | — | — | 236 | #755 |
| 2002 | — | — | 240 | #732 |
| 2001 | — | — | 269 | #675 |
| 2000 | — | — | 278 | #652 |
| 1999 | — | — | 280 | #635 |
| 1998 | — | — | 367 | #546 |
| 1997 | — | — | 375 | #533 |
| 1996 | — | — | 416 | #502 |
| 1995 | — | — | 536 | #425 |
| 1994 | — | — | 612 | #381 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,258 | 670 | #351 |
| 1992 | — | — | 845 | #313 |
| 1991 | — | — | 972 | #274 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,098 | #249 |
| 1989 | — | — | 1,208 | #224 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,591 | 1,231 | #213 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,966 | 1,305 | #198 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,982 | 1,263 | #199 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,806 | 1,322 | #191 |
| 1984 | — | — | 1,324 | #189 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,374 | 1,320 | #189 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,517 | 1,289 | #194 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,632 | 1,245 | #198 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,435 | 1,222 | #200 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,532 | 1,263 | #191 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,273 | 1,271 | #185 |
| 1977 | — | — | 1,263 | #185 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,214 | 1,297 | #178 |
| 1975 | — | — | 1,395 | #167 |
| 1974 | — | — | 1,179 | #191 |
| 1973 | — | — | 977 | #224 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,141 | 1,052 | #211 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,200 | 1,196 | #203 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,365 | 1,286 | #201 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,165 | 1,138 | #214 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,498 | 947 | #232 |
| 1967 | — | — | 882 | #236 |
| 1966 | — | — | 838 | #249 |
| 1965 | — | — | 866 | #253 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,111 | 846 | #264 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,958 | 822 | #267 |
| 1962 | — | — | 793 | #273 |
| 1961 | — | — | 824 | #274 |
| 1960 | — | — | 799 | #281 |
| 1959 | — | — | 734 | #290 |
| 1958 | — | — | 774 | #274 |
| 1957 | — | — | 747 | #276 |
| 1956 | — | — | 793 | #259 |
| 1955 | — | — | 710 | #265 |
| 1954 | — | — | 670 | #273 |
| 1953 | — | — | 668 | #269 |
| 1952 | — | — | 624 | #276 |
| 1951 | — | — | 565 | #288 |
| 1950 | — | — | 614 | #264 |
| 1949 | — | — | 588 | #277 |
| 1948 | — | — | 584 | #278 |
| 1947 | — | — | 578 | #286 |
| 1946 | — | — | 458 | #303 |
| 1945 | — | — | 321 | #334 |
| 1944 | — | — | 279 | #358 |
| 1943 | — | — | 300 | #354 |
| 1942 | — | — | 235 | #394 |
| 1941 | — | — | 223 | #385 |
| 1940 | — | — | 148 | #476 |
| 1939 | — | — | 88 | #622 |
| 1938 | — | — | 69 | #739 |
| 1937 | — | — | 51 | #858 |
| 1936 | — | — | 43 | #942 |
| 1935 | — | — | 26 | #1,337 |
| 1934 | — | — | 30 | #1,226 |
| 1933 | — | — | 39 | #1,038 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,402 |
| 1931 | — | — | 31 | #1,244 |
| 1930 | — | — | 30 | #1,312 |
| 1929 | — | — | 20 | #1,694 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,786 |
| 1927 | — | — | 25 | #1,534 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,934 |
| 1925 | — | — | 22 | #1,653 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,799 |
| 1923 | — | — | 22 | #1,661 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,547 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,604 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,781 |
| 1919 | — | — | 23 | #1,545 |
| 1918 | — | — | 24 | #1,510 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,772 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,799 |
| 1915 | — | — | 18 | #1,682 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,904 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,278 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,125 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,838 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,683 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,053 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,188 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,392 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,148 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).