Male name
Godfrey
3,245 births (United States, 1880–2025), peaking in 1918. Expression number: 8.
Origin
From Old French Godefrei, from Old High German Godafrid (“peace of God”), from Proto-Germanic *Gudafriþuz. Equivalent to god + frith. Doublet of Gottfried and Geoffrey.From Wiktionary, entry “Godfrey”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In the United States
Peak in 1918: 71 births. 3,245 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given steadily, decade after decade, from the 1910s to the 1980s. It really came into use around 1912. It is still given: 49 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
7 + 6 + 4 + 6 + 9 + 5 + 7 = 44 → 8
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
11
intuition and inspiration (master number)
6 + 5 = 11
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
33
the guide, self-giving (master number)
7 + 4 + 6 + 9 + 7 = 33
- Digits missing from the name
- 1, 2, 3, 8
- Most frequent digit
- 6 · responsibility, harmony, commitment to others
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.