Alfred
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About Alfred
Alfred is up off his recliner! If you're looking for a path to Fred, you can go directly to Frederick or take the long way around with the so-out-it's-in-again Alfred. Alfred is quite popular in several European countries, especially England and Wales, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (called "England's darling") was a wise, compassionate and scholarly king of old England in the tenth century. His name reached the height of its popularity from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century—it was in the Top 50 in the U.S. until 1933.
Among its best known bearers were the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, movie director Alfred Hitchcock, biologist/sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, Swedish inventor/industrialist Alfred Nobel, and photographer Alfred Stieglitz. And let's not forget Batman's butler, Alfred Pennyworth.
Hipper nicknames: Alf, Alfie, and Fred.
As of October 2026, Alfred ranked #840 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #32 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #273.
Editor's take: The name Alfred is a boy's name of English origin meaning "wise counselor; elf counsel".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #795 | 288 | 149.9 |
| 2015 | #922 | 232 | 121 |
| 2016 | #845 | 266 | 140.2 |
| 2017 | #863 | 252 | 136.1 |
| 2018 | #862 | 254 | 139.9 |
| 2019 | #802 | 286 | 159.4 |
| 2020 | #899 | 250 | 144.8 |
| 2021 | #903 | 254 | 145.2 |
| 2022 | #841 | 289 | 165.5 |
| 2023 | #928 | 245 | 143.2 |
| 2024 | #838 | 293 | 170.1 |
| 2025 | #840 | 293 | 171.5 |
World rankings
Similar names
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Alfred on lists
Famous Alfreds
- Alfred Tennyson
1st Baron Tennyson, English poet
- Alfred the Great
King of Wessex
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Swedish inventor of dynamite
- Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer, husband of painter Georgia O'Keeffe
- Alfred Russel Wallace
British biologist
- Alfred Kinsey
American biologist
- Alfred
Duke of Saxe,Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria
- Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
American naval strategist
- Alfred Bester
American author
- Alfred Hitchcock
English film director
- Alfred Bruce "Bosie" Douglas
English poet and companion of Oscar Wilde
- Alfred Morris
American football player
- Alfred Lion
German,American founder of Blue Note Records
- Alfred Newman
American composer
- Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate
- Alfred 'Alfie' Deyes
English YouTuber
- Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore
English actor
- Alfred Binet
French psychologist
- Alfred Walliams
son of supermodel Lara Stone and comedian David Walliams
- Alfred Enoch
English actor
- Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic
American musician/comedian
- Alfred Waterhouse
British architect
- Alfried "Alfred" Felix Alwyn Krupp
German industrialist
- Alfred Abraham Knopf
Sr., American publisher
Alfred in pop culture
- Alfred Ashford
antagonist of the video game 'Resident Evil'
- Alfred Hedgehog
cartoon character
- Alfred Inglethorp
character in Agatha Christie's 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'
- Alfred Jones
character in the movie 'Salmon Fishing the Yemen'
- Alfred F. Jones
fictional character and personification of the USA in the manga and anime series 'Axis Powers: Hetalia'
- Alfred Lee
character in Agatha Christie's 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas'
- Alfed Lickspittle
character in the Hobbit movies
- Alfred E. Neuman
name of the mascot and cover boy of the American magazine 'Mad'
- Alfred Pennyworth
Bruce Wayne's butler in the Batman franchise
- Alfred Looney
janitor at Vanderbilt High School in the ABC TGIF sitcom "Family Matters" he claims the name is pronounced "loonay"
Variations & nicknames
- AlfredoSpanish
- AlfreckGerman
- AlfridGerman
- AilfridIrish Gaelic