Geoffrey vs Rylan - What's the difference?
geoffrey | rylan |
. Popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
* 1879 Mary Elizabeth Shipley: Looking Back . page 98:
* 1996 Mary Higgins Clark: Let me Call You Sweetheart . ISBN 0671568175 page 207:
* 2011 , Lasting Damage , Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:
, possibly a variant of Ryland, derived from (etyl) words meaning "rye field".
of modern usage, transferred from the surname.
As proper nouns the difference between geoffrey and rylan
is that geoffrey is popular in the uk in the 20th century while rylan is , possibly a variant of ryland, derived from (etyl) words meaning "rye field".geoffrey
English
(wikipedia Geoffrey)Alternative forms
* Jeffrey * Jeffery * (archaic) GeffreyProper noun
(en proper noun)- "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?"
- "Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey ; there's some sound in it."
- Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.
- His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey' Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him.
' ''Benji''? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and ' Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ? both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ? and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.