The GODFREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	27,700	1159	0.01	103
United States (1880 census)	7,122	843	0.014	142
Change since 1880	+20578	-316	-0.004	-39
Other Countries
Australia	2,697	582	0.016	165
United Kingdom	12,100	485	0.026	263

Top States for GODFREY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,992	577	0.025	247
Georgia	1,925	546	0.024	235
California	1,888	1744	0.006	56
Texas	1,830	1366	0.009	88
Florida	1,623	1279	0.010	102
Top States for GODFREY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,365	462	0.034	340
Utah	716	366	0.032	321
North Carolina	1,992	577	0.025	247
Vermont	145	686	0.024	238
Georgia	1,925	546	0.024	235

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GODFREY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GODFREY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GODFREY in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GODFREY by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GODFREY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GODFREY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GODFREY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GODFREY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	454	1.64
White (Hispanic)	391	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	197	0.71
Asian/Pacific	130	0.47
White (Caucasian)	22,290	80.47
Black/African American	4,241	15.31

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GODFREY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GODFREY in historical publications

(origin: Ger.) God's peace, godlike peace, from God and frid or frede, peace, or from Gau-fred, joyful peace.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

GODFREY. GODFREE. An ancient Teutonic personal name — the same as Geoffrey. The form Goisfridus is very common in Domesd. The Godfreys of Brook-Street House, Kent, are supposed to be descended from Godfrey le Faucouer.lord of the manor of Hurst in that county, in the reign of Henry II. B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to GODFREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GODFREY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.