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Geoff

Boys' name

Possibly peace, sanctuary, through Geoffrey

Geoff has been given to 1,549 babies in the U.S. since 1940. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Geoff, 2016

1 in 612,000

Geoff over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Geoff: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly peace, sanctuary, through Geoffrey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Geoff means

Geoff belongs to the name family reached through Geoff → Geoffrey. Its meaning is “peace, sanctuary”.

Origin, language, and formation

Geoff is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Geoffrey.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Geoff is pronounced /d͡ʒɛf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,549 boys were recorded with the name Geoff between 1940 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1962; its best national rank was #941 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Geoff?

Geoff had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Geoff sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geoff. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Geoffs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Geoff was born before 1969 — so the typical Geoff is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,475
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1960s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (493).

Is Geoff rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (65)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#941
1962

Spellings of Geoff

Geoff is not the most common spelling — Jeff is, with 97.1% against Geoff's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Geoff is used

Across 1910–2025, Geoff was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 183,975 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Oregon1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Geoff has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Geoff around the world

Where Geoff ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1986–1987
    #327
    in 1987
  • Ireland
    1990–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,824
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1952–1987
    #464
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Geoff by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#941
1962
Peak year
1962
65 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
1,549
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Geoff

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Geoff

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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