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Geoff

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Geoff is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 941st, in 1962.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
196265 births
Best rank
#941in 1962
Since 1940
1,549people given the name
Babies named Geoff, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,549 boys have been named Geoff in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 65 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 65 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Geoff
1940s74
1950s224
1960s493
1970s445
1980s184
1990s99
2000s16
2010s14

In 1962, its biggest year

Geoff was the 941st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.

Names that rose and fell with Geoff

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.