Geoff is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Geoff has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Geoff. That means that a boy named Geoff is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Geoff.
Is the name Geoff a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 65 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1962 – at that time, it ranked #840. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Geoff is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Geoff, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Geoff was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Geoff born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Geoff born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Geoff. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 367 Americans who bear this name. And these 367 men and boys named Geoff live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Ohio. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Geoff lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Geoff and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Geoff relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 64,552 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Geoff.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Geoff is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Geoff and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Geoff, you can simply say:
Goat
Elephant
Orange
Fox
Fox
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Geoff
Geoff
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
E
O
F
F
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
E
O
F
F
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Geoff sounds like this:
