Geofrey
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɠeofɾej/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Geofrey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Uganda it is the 80th most common given name.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 697(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 1.6K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 697 (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geofrey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #112 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | 3 | Geofrey | 43 |
| KE Kenya | #254 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Geofrey | 43 |
| UG Uganda | #80 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 8 | Geofrey | 42 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Geofrey | 32 |
| ZM Zambia | #629 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 10 | Geofrey | 13 |
| MW Malawi | #286 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Geofrey | 10 |
| US United States | — | 318 | 1 in 1M | 318 | Geofrey | 156 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Geof Motleyb. 1935AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer and coach
- Geofrey Nyekob. 1959UGUgandan boxer
- Geoffrey Mutiwab. 1982UGnot in their usual nameUgandan politician
- Geofrey Ssolo Kayembab. 1983UGUgandan politician
- Geofrey Lamontb. 1985BEbadminton player
- Geofrey Baruseib. 1994KEKenyan athletics competitor
- Geoffrey Wasswab. 1999UGnot in their usual nameUgandan footballer
- Geofrey Nabutanyi WatengaUGUgandan politician
- Geofrey LutaayaUGUgandan musician
- Geofrey De Visscherresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 318 | #28,312 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 10 | #35 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 9 | — |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 8 | #114 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Geofrey?
- A machine transcription gives /ɠeofɾej/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Geofrey a male or female name?
- Geofrey is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Geofrey?
- In the etymology graph, Jeffrey, Jeffery and Geoffrey are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Geofrey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Geofrey in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geofrey.
- How common is the name Geofrey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 318 people named Geofrey in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Geofrey compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Geofrey is the 112th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Geofrey?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geofreyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Geofrey” — the 112th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.