Gofraid

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{{Infobox given name2

| name = {{lang|ga|Gofraid}}

| image = Gofraidh name.svg

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| caption = The Gofraidh variant in Gaelic type (the lenited d in the name, today rendered dh, once appeared in Irish orthography with a dot above it, as pictured).

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| gender = Masculine

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| language = Irish

| languageorigin = Old Norse

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| derivation = {{lang|non|Guðfriðr}}, sometimes {{lang|non|Guðrøðr}}

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| variant = Irish: {{lang|ga|Gofraidh}};
Old Irish through Middle Irish and Middle Gaelic: {{lang|mga|Gofhraidh}};
modern Scottish Gaelic: {{lang|gd|Goraidh}}, {{lang|gd|Goiridh}}

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| cognate = {{lang|de|Gottfried}}, {{lang|fro|Godefroy}}, {{lang|la|Godfredus}};
Godred, Guthred, Guthfrith {{lang|la|Godredus}}

| anglicisation = Goffraid, Godfrey, Geoffrey

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{{lang|ga|Gofraid}} is an Irish masculine given name, arising in the Old Irish and Middle Irish/Middle Gaelic languages, as {{lang|mga|Gofhraidh}}, and later partially Anglicised as Goffraid.{{citation |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |author-link1=Patrick Hanks |last2=Hardcastle |first2=Kate |last3=Hodges |first3=Flavia |title=A Dictionary of First Names |edition=2nd |series=Oxford Paperback Reference |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |page=349 }}

{{lang|ga|Gofraid}} corresponds to the Old Norse {{lang|non|Guðfriðr}},{{citation |last=Byrne |first=Francis John |contribution=Ireland before the battle of Clontarf |title=Prehistoric and Early Ireland |editor1-last=Ó Cróinín |editor1-first=D |series=A New History of Ireland |volume=1 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008 |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-821737-4 |page=632 }} cognate with Gottfried or {{lang|la|Godfredus}}, and Galfrid or {{lang|la|Galfridus}}. Gofraid/Gofhraidh was sometimes also used for {{lang|non|Guðrøðr}}{{citation |last=Downham |first=Clare |title=Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014 |publisher=Dunedin Academic Press |location=Edinburgh |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-903765-89-0 |page=3 }} (partially Anglicized as Godred, Guthred, or Guthfrith, Latinised as {{lang|la|Godredus}}).

{{lang|mga|Gofraid}} can be Anglicised as Godfrey{{citation |last=Sellar |first=W. D. H. |author-link=W. D. H. Sellar |contribution=Hebridean Sea Kings: The Successors of Somerled, 1164–1316 |title=Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages |editor1-last=Cowan |editor1-first=Edward J. |editor1-link=Edward J. Cowan |editor2-last=McDonald |editor2-first=R. Andrew |year=2000 |location=East Linton |publisher=Tuckwell Press |isbn=1-86232-151-5 |page=187 }} or Geoffrey.{{citation |last=Mark |first=Colin |title=The Gaelic-English Dictionary | publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |location=London |isbn=0-203-22259-8 |page=715 }}

The lenited variant spelling {{lang|ga|Gofraidh}} (or {{lang|ga|Gofraiḋ}}, with a diacritic in the older Irish orthography, especially in Gaelic type), was influenced by the Old French {{lang|fro|Godefroy}}.

{{lang|gd|Goraidh}} and, less commonly, {{lang|gd|Goiridh}} are equivalents in the Scottish Gaelic language (from {{lang|non|Guðrøðr}}).