is an Irish masculine given name, arising in the

Old Irish Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic ( sga, Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; ga, Sean-Ghaeilge; gd, Seann-Ghàidhlig; gv, Shenn Yernish or ), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive writte ...

and

Middle Irish Middle Irish, sometimes called Middle Gaelic ( ga, An Mheán-Ghaeilge, gd, Meadhan-Ghàidhlig), is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man from AD; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old Eng ...

/ Middle Gaelic languages, as , and later partially

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as Goffraid. ' corresponds to the

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with

Gottfried Gottfried is a masculine German given name. It is derived from the Old High German name , recorded since the 7th century. The name is composed of the elements (conflated from the etyma for 'God' and 'good', and possibly further conflated with ) a ...

or ', and Galfrid or '. ''Gofraid''/''Gofhraidh'' was sometimes also used for ' (partially Anglicized as Godred, Guthred, or Guthfrith, Latinised as '). ' can be

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or Geoffrey. The

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variant spelling (or ', with a

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in the older

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, especially in

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), was influenced by the

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'. and, less commonly, ' are equivalents in the

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well a ...

language (from ').

Notable people bearing this name

* Godred Crovan (died 1095), also known as "Gofraid", "Gofraidh", and "Gofhraidh", King of Dublin and the Isles * Godred Olafsson (died 1187), also known as "Gofraid", King of Dublin and the Isles * Gofraid Donn (died 1231), King in the Isles *

Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh (died 1387), of Duhallow, Country Cork, was an Irish poet and Chief Ollamh of Ireland. He is known to be one of the most important professional poets of fourteen-century Ireland.''The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writin ...

, (died 1387), an Irish poet and Chief Ollam of Ireland * Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill (died 1075), King of Dublin *

Gofraid mac Arailt Gofraid mac Arailt (died 989), in Old Norse Guðrøðr Haraldsson , was a Scandinavian or Norse-Gael king. He and his brother Maccus were active in the lands around the Irish Sea in the 970s and 980s. Origins Gofraid and Maccus are usually assume ...

(died 989), King of the Isles *

Gofraidh mac Briain Mac an Bhaird Gofraidh mac Briain Mac an Bhaird, Gaels, Gaelic-Irish people, Irish bardic poet, fl. 16th-century. A member of the Mac an Bhaird family of professional poets, Gofraidh is known from three surviving poems, ''Lámh indiu im thionnsgnamh, a Thrío ...

, (''fl.'' 16th century), an Irish bardic poet *

Gofraid mac Domnaill Gofraid mac Domnaill (alternatively "Godfrey MacWilliam"; "Guthred"; "Guthred son of Macwilliam"), was a thirteenth-century Scottish rebel. The son of Domnall (modern; Donald), his father's surname was almost certainly MacWilliam (the modern spelli ...

(died 1212/1213), Scottish rebel * Gofraid mac Fergusa, supposed 9th-century Gaelic nobleman * Gofraid mac Sitriuc (died 951), King of Dublin *Gofraid mac Sitriuc (died 1070), King of the Isles, father of Fingal mac Gofraid * Gofraid of Lochlann, 9th-century Viking king * Gofraid ua Ímair (died 934), King of Dublin and Northumbria * Goraidh Mac Eachann MacAlasdair (fl. 16th century), chief of Clan MacAlister * Guðrøðr Magnússon (fl. 1275), son of Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles

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{{Gaelic names Irish-language masculine given names

Notable people bearing this name

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