is an Irish masculine given name, arising in the Old Irish and Middle Irish/Middle Gaelic languages, as , and later partially Anglicised as Goffraid.

corresponds to the Old Norse , cognate with Gottfried or , and Galfrid or . Gofraid/Gofhraidh was sometimes also used for (partially Anglicized as Godred, Guthred, or Guthfrith, Latinised as ).

can be Anglicised as Godfrey, Geoffrey or Caffrey.

The lenited variant spelling (or , with a diacritic in the older Irish orthography, especially in Gaelic type), was influenced by the Old French .

and, less commonly, are equivalents in the Scottish Gaelic 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, (died 1387), an Irish poet and Chief Ollam of Ireland

• Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill (died 1075), King of Dublin

• Gofraid mac Arailt (died 989), King of the Isles

• Gofraidh mac Briain Mac an Bhaird, (fl. 16th century), an Irish bardic poet

• Gofraid mac Domnaill (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

See also

• Galfrid

• Geoffrey, Geoffroy (surname), Jeffrey, Jeffries, Jeffers

• Godred/Guðrøðr

• Gottfried, Godfrey, Godefroy, Goffredo

• Gruffudd/Gruffydd, Griffith (name), Griffith (surname), Griffiths

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