What is the name meaning of GEOFF. Phrases containing GEOFF
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GEOFF
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Anglo Saxon English French
Peaceful gift.
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English
English : variant spelling of Jeffrey.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Jamaican, Teutonic
Divine Peace; Peace; Peaceful Traveller
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English (of Norman origin), French, and North German
English (of Norman origin), French, and North German : from Giselbert, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements gīsil ‘pledge’, ‘hostage’, ‘noble youth’ (see Giesel) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. This personal name enjoyed considerable popularity in England during the Middle Ages, partly as a result of the fame of St. Gilbert of Sempringham (1085–1189), the founder of the only native English monastic order.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.The Devon family of Gilbert can be traced to Geoffrey Gilbert (died 1349), who represented Totnes in Parliament in 1326. His descendants included Sir Humphrey Gilbert (died 1583), who discovered Newfoundland.
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English American
Son of Geoffrey. Used more often as a surname. Famous Bearer: American president Thomas...
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English
English form of French Geoffroi, possibly GEOFFREY means "God's peace."Â
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Australian, German
Peace
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Australian, German
Peace
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English
Short form of English Geoffrey, possibly GEOFF means "God's peace."Â
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Irish
Irish Gaelic form of French Geoffroi or Godefrei, SIOTHRÚN means "God's peace."Â
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English
Anglicized form of Old Welsh Guorthigern, VORTIGERN means "high lord" or "overlord." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of the king who allowed the Saxons to settle in Britain in return for the hand of Hengist's daughter. Because his castle, Dinas Emrys, kept collapsing, Vortigern consulted Aurelius Ambrosianus, whom Geoffrey of Monmouth identified with Merlin in his retelling of the story.Â
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English form of Latin Merlinus, the name of a famous wizard of Arthurian legend, MERLIN means "sea-fort." Merlin was introduced into Arthurian legend by Geoffrey of Monmouth. According to Geoffrey, Merlin was the son of a demon and a princess. He became known for his prophetic abilities at a very young age and was consulted by King Vortigern to explain why his castle kept collapsing. Merlin revealed that there was an underground lake in which two dragons slept, a white one and a red one, representing the Saxons and Britons, and this was the portent for things to come. He is also called Myrddin Emrys, meaning "Merlin the Immortal."Â
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French, German
Peace
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Welsh
Welsh form of English Geoffrey, probably SIEFFRE means "God's peace."Â
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Irish
Irish Gaelic form of English Geoffrey, probably SÉAFRA means "God's peace."Â
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French
French name perhaps derived from Norman French Godefrei, GEOFFROI means "God's peace."
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Teutonic American English Anglo Saxon French German
God's peace.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Swiss
Peaceful Gift; Abbreviation of Geoffrey; Form of Jeffrey; God's Peace
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English, French, and Spanish (MerlÃn)
English, French, and Spanish (MerlÃn) : from the Old French personal name Merlin, Latin Merlinus was derived from the Welsh personal name Myrddin. Merlinus was a Latinized form of Myrddin devised by Geoffrey of Monmouth and popularized in the Arthurian romances.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Merle, a pet form of Miryam (see Mirkin).
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English
This name first appears in the chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth; Sir Walter Scott then brought the name to the public's attention by using it to name a character in his novel Ivanhoe. It is the Latin form of an uncertain Anglo-Saxon name, perhaps Hrodwyn, ROWENA means "famous joy."
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places called Morley (for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, County Durham, Norfolk, and West Yorkshire), or Moreleigh in Devon, all of which are named from Old English mÅr ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’.Possibly an altered spelling of French Morlet, a nickname from a diminutive of Old French mor ‘brown’, ‘dark’ (from Latin Maurus ‘Moor’).
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Music of Payal
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Hindu, Indian
To Submit
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Indian, Kannada
Lovely; Pleasing
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English
Divine counselor.
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Tamil
Goddess Saraswati
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Indian
Optimistic and full of hope, Princess, Queen
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Hungarian
Hungarian form of Latin Eduardus, EDUÃRD means "guardian of prosperity."
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Tamil
Near, Literature
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Indian
Good soul, Good natured
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An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina.