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The godfrey Surname

godfrey Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s), composed of the Germanic elements god, got ‘god’ + frid(u), fred ‘peace’. See also Jeffrey.
  2. Americanized form of Irish Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh, patronymics from the Irish equivalent of Godfrey (see 1 above), borrowed from the Vikings.
  3. Americanized form of the French surname Godefroi, of the same origin as 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of godfrey Families in the US in 1920
Number of godfrey families
 190-378
 64-189		 1-63
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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