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Geoffrey is a French and English masculine given name. It is the Anglo-Norman form of the German name Gottfried. It was introduced to Norman England alongside the form Godfrey. It was also anglicized as Jeffrey from an early time.Popularity of the name declined after the medieval period, but it was revived in the 20th century. Modern hypocorisms include Geoff, Jeff or Geof.Jeffrey and its variants are found as surnames, usually as a patronymic ending in-s (e.g. Jefferies, Jaffrays); The surname Jefferson is also a patronymic version of the given name.t is the Anglo-Norman form of the German name Gottfried. It was introduced to Norman England alongside the form Godfrey. It was also anglicized as Jeffrey from an early time. Popularity of the name declined after the medieval period, but it was revived in the 20th century.
The Jeffries surname is a patronymic name that comes from the personal names Geoffrey and Godfrey. These names appear in Old English as Geffrey and in Old French as Jefroi or Jeufroi. The surname Jeffries makes use of the patronymic suffix -son, which had superseded all other such suffixes in popularity by the 14th century, and was most common in the north of Britain. This suffix was sometimes abbreviated to -s.