Given name & surname
Winfred
“a friend of peace”
Winfred is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a friend of peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a friend of peace.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English Wynnfriþ; its root is Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Winfred through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,455
- 10,104 boys · 351 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 260 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 boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 244 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,050 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 59,101 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Winfred’s family of names
In English usage, Winfred has a conventional equivalent in the German form Winfried. Winfred has a related form in Winfried. In English usage, Winfred has a related form in WINFREY.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Winfred
- Winfred OmwakweMiss Earth 2002born 1981
- Winfred P. LehmannAmerican linguist1916–2007
- Winfred KingAmerican basketball player (born 1961)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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