Given name & surname
Winfried
“a friend of peace”
Winfried is a variant of Winfred. One English interpretation is “a friend of peace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Winfried is a variant of Winfred. One English interpretation is “a friend of peace.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Winfried is a variant of Winfred. An origin associated with Winfred is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Winfried through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 5 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 1960. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 207 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.
Winfried’s family of names
Winfried has a related form in Winfred. In German usage, Winfried has a conventional equivalent in the English form Winfred.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 Winfried
- Winfried KretschmannGerman politician (born 1948)
- Winfried SchäferGerman footballer and managerborn 1950
- Winfried Otto SchumannGerman geophysicist (1888-1974)
- Wyn HoopGerman singerborn 1936
- Winfried Freudenberglast person to die escaping from East Germany1956–1989
- Winfried GlatzederGerman actorborn 1945
- Winfried BölkeGerman cyclist (1941–2021)
- Winfried DenkGerman physicist and neurobiologistborn 1957
- Winfried ZilligGerman composer, musicologist and conductor (1905–1963)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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