Geoff

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Jeff in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 23 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Geoff is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name13K records spelled Geoff6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Geòff

• Russian given name410 records spelled Geoff4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Геофф

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Geoff is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• English: short form of GEOFFREY . See also JEFF .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1940–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Geoff Murphyb. 1938NZNew Zealand filmmaker (1938–2018)
• Geoff Hurstb. 1941GBEnglish footballer (born 1941)
• Geoff Nichollsb. 1948GBBritish guitarist and keyboardist (1948–2017)
• Geoff Piersonb. 1949USAmerican actor
• Geoff Mulganb. 1961GBBritish political advisor
• Geoff Bellb. 1963GBEnglish actor
• Geoff Zanellib. 1974USAmerican composer
• Geoff Stultsb. 1977USAmerican actor
• Jim Jefferiesb. 1977AUnot in their usual nameAustralian-American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
• Geoff Cameronb. 1985USAmerican soccer player

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 103 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Geoff?

We estimate roughly 210 thousand people bear Geoff (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Geoff have the most bearers?

We estimate about 208 thousand people bear Geoff in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jeff.

How common is Geoff compared with other names?

In the United States, Geoff is the 130th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Geoff a male or female name?

Geoff 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 does the name Geoff mean?

Recorded meaning: Short form of Geoffrey.