Definition of "Geoffrey"

"Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?""Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey; there's some sound in it."

1879, Mary Elizabeth Shipley, Looking Back, page 98

Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.

1996, Mary Higgins Clark, Let me Call You Sweetheart, page 207

His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. 'Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.

2011, Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, pages 77–78