Wilfred
About Wilfred
The name Wilfred peaked for boys at #164 in 1917. The name is most popular in New York, Florida, and New York. Wilfred is occasionally used for girls in 1956.
As of September 2026, Wilfred ranked #3844 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #164 in 1917, Nameberry popularity #756.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,781 | 28 | 14.6 |
| 2015 | #4,398 | 23 | 12 |
| 2016 | #3,438 | 33 | 17.4 |
| 2017 | #4,459 | 23 | 12.4 |
| 2018 | #3,883 | 28 | 15.4 |
| 2019 | #4,221 | 25 | 13.9 |
| 2020 | #3,912 | 27 | 15.6 |
| 2021 | #3,118 | 39 | 22.3 |
| 2022 | #4,430 | 24 | 13.7 |
| 2023 | #3,869 | 29 | 17 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,844 | 29 | 17 |
World rankings
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Famous Wilfreds
- Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
English poet
- Wilfred Van Norman Lucas
Canadian,American actor
- Wilfred Rhodes
English cricketer
- Wilfred the Hairy
Count of Barcelona
- Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
British Arabian explorer
- Wilfred Emmons Jackson
American Disney animator
- Wilfred Benítez
Puerto Rican boxer
- Wilfred Tennant (b. 2013)
son of actors David Tennant and Georgia Moffett
- Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson (b. 2020)
son of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds
Wilfred in pop culture
- Wilfred
dog on TV's "Wilfred"
- Wilfred
Knight of Ivanhoe, character in Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
- Wilfred Toadflax
mouse in the Brambly Hedge Mice books
- Wilfred Morgenhall
seedy old lawyer in John Mortimer's play The Dock Brief (1958)
- The Hon. Wilfred Desert
character in the Forsyte series by John Galsworthy
- Wilfred Devizes
mental specialist in "Christina Alberta's Father" (1925) by H. G. Wells
- Wilfred Mott
character from TV series "Doctor Who"
Variations & nicknames
- WilliGerman
- WilfridoSpanish
- WilferdoSpanish
- WilfridGerman
- VilfredoSpanish
- VilfridoSpanish
- WillifredGerman
- WalfridoSpanish
- WilfredoSpanish