Given name
Alfreda
“one who counsels the elves”
Alfreda is a feminine form of Alfred. One English interpretation is “one who counsels the elves.”
Original GermanAlfredina
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Alfreda carries the interpretation “one who counsels the elves.” Alfreda is a feminine form of Alfred. One English interpretation is “one who counsels the elves.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
Alfreda is used as a feminine counterpart of Alfred.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alfreda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,418
- 35 boys · 11,383 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 363 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 363 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,916 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alfreda’s family of names
In Italian usage, Alfreda has a diminutive in Dina. Alfreda is a feminine form of Alfred. In English usage, Alfreda has a related form in Elfreda.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alfreda has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Alfredinavariant · German, Spanish
- Alfredevariant · German, Danish
- Dinadiminutive · Italian
- Alfreadavariant
- Alfreidavariant
- Alfriedavariant
- Alfridavariant
- Alfreedavariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alfreda
- Alfreda MarkowskaPolish-Roma saviour of Holocaust and Porajmos victims (1926-2021)
- Ælfthryth of CrowlandMercian saint701–834
- Alfreda Bengeartistborn 1940
- Alfreda HausnerAustrian chess player1927–2019
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