Alfred
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Alfred is also given to girls.
Pronounced AL-fred.
As of October 2026, Alfred ranked #840 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #32 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #199.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #795 | 288 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #922 | 232 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #845 | 266 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #863 | 252 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #862 | 254 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #802 | 286 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #899 | 250 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #903 | 254 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #841 | 289 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #928 | 245 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #838 | 293 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #840 | 293 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Similar names
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Alfred on lists
Famous Alfreds
- Alfred TennysonBoy
1st Baron Tennyson, English poet
- Alfred the GreatBoy
King of Wessex
- Alfred Bernhard NobelBoy
Swedish inventor of dynamite
- Alfred StieglitzBoy
American photographer, husband of painter Georgia O'Keeffe
- Alfred Russel WallaceBoy
British biologist
- Alfred KinseyBoy
American biologist
- AlfredBoy
Duke of Saxe,Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria
- Alfred North WhiteheadBoy
English mathematician and philosopher
- Alfred Thayer MahanBoy
American naval strategist
- Alfred BesterBoy
American author
- Alfred HitchcockBoy
English film director
- Alfred Bruce "Bosie" DouglasBoy
English poet and companion of Oscar Wilde
- Alfred MorrisBoy
American football player
- Alfred LionBoy
German,American founder of Blue Note Records
- Alfred NewmanBoy
American composer
- Alfred Charles William HarmsworthBoy
1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate
- Alfred 'Alfie' DeyesBoy
English YouTuber
- Alfred Thomas "Freddie" HighmoreBoy
English actor
- Alfred BinetBoy
French psychologist
- Alfred WalliamsBoy
son of supermodel Lara Stone and comedian David Walliams
- Alfred EnochBoy
English actor
- Alfred "Weird Al" YankovicBoy
American musician/comedian
- Alfred WaterhouseBoy
British architect
- Alfried "Alfred" Felix Alwyn KruppBoy
German industrialist
- Alfred Abraham KnopfBoy
Sr., American publisher
Alfred in pop culture
- Alfred AshfordBoy
antagonist of the video game 'Resident Evil'
- Alfred HedgehogBoy
cartoon character
- Alfred InglethorpBoy
character in Agatha Christie's 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'
- Alfred JonesBoy
character in the movie 'Salmon Fishing the Yemen'
- Alfred F. JonesBoy
fictional character and personification of the USA in the manga and anime series 'Axis Powers: Hetalia'
- Alfred LeeBoy
character in Agatha Christie's 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas'
- Alfed LickspittleBoy
character in the Hobbit movies
- Alfred E. NeumanBoy
name of the mascot and cover boy of the American magazine 'Mad'
- Alfred PennyworthBoy
Bruce Wayne's butler in the Batman franchise
- Alfred LooneyBoy
janitor at Vanderbilt High School in the ABC TGIF sitcom "Family Matters" he claims the name is pronounced "loonay"