Geofrey
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Geofrey is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Uganda it is the 76th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- TZTanzania1 in 1.9K◐
- KEKenya1 in 1.9K
- PHPhilippines1 in 77K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈391 ●
- Sources
- 134 ●
- 1 in 489K ◐
across 7 countries
19K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #256 | 15,193 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 41 |
| TZ Tanzania | #114 | 7,063 | 5.6K rec. | — | 3 | Geofrey | 40 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,162 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 970 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 476 | 488 rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 401 | 350 rec. | — | 3 | Geofrey | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 390 | 313 rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 50 |
| UG Uganda | #76 | 340 | 162 rec. | — | 8 | Geofrey | 42 |
| US United States | — | 318 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 1M | 318 | Geofrey | 134 |
| ZM Zambia | #652 | 201 | 17 rec. | — | 10 | Geofrey | 14 |
| PE Peru | — | 156 | 140 rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 13 |
| MW Malawi | #281 | 148 | 5 rec. | — | — | Geofrey | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili23K65%
- English7.3K21%
- Spanish1.1K3%
- French6612%
- Japanese3551%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 22,804 | 65% |
| English | 7,304 | 21% |
| Spanish | 1,082 | 3% |
| French | 661 | 2% |
| Japanese | 355 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1984 | 9 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1992 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 21 years between 1953–1992. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
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 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #120,190 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #30,836 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #15,282 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #6,120 |
| 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 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 87 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Geofrey?
- We estimate roughly 391 people bear Geofrey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Geofrey have the most bearers?
- Geofrey is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled geofrey.
- How common is Geofrey compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Geofrey is the 256th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 256th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.