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Alfred
Pronounced /ˈælfɹəd/
Rank in 2024
#838
Born in 2024
293
Peak year
1928 · #33
Origin
Old English
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 293 boys were named Alfred, about 1 in every 5,854.
- It peaked in 1928 with 6,252 babies, ranked #33.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 243,558 boys have been named Alfred since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Alfred per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.6Greatest1901–27
- 3.1Silent1928–45
- 1.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 77,327 babies, 4.63 per 1,000. Silent: 64,480 babies, 3.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 53,607 babies, 1.43 per 1,000. Gen X: 19,281 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,229 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,667 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,117 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) + rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery. Equivalent to elf + rede. The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).
- A male given name from Old English.
- Origin
- Old English
- Say it
- /ˈælfɹəd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Alfred, CC BY-SA 4.0.