Alfhild

Girls' name

Elf + battle

Alfhild has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1899. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Alfhild, 1922

1 in 382,000

Alfhild over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alfhild: meaning, origin, and history

Elf + battle

Old Norse

What Alfhild means

Alfhild means “elf + battle”, associated with alfr and hildr.

Origin, language, and formation

Alfhild is used in Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Alfhild comes through Old Norse Alfhildr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvhild.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 girls were recorded with the name Alfhild between 1899 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,327 in 1906.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alfhild?

Alfhild had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922: 1 in 382,000; 6 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only: 1 in 200,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 264,449 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alfhild sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 264,449 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alfhild. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alfhilds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alfhild was born before 1913 — so the typical Alfhild is around 112 today.

Median birth year: 1913; About 112 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Alfhild rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (14)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,327; 1906

Alfhild around the world

Where Alfhild ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Norway
1880–1980
#608
in 1980

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Alfhild by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,327; 1906
Peak year: 1916; 14 that year
First recorded: 1899
Last recorded: 1922
All-time count: 89
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alfhild

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Alfonso Alfrida Alfiya Alfredo Alfreeda Alfie Gunhild Alfretta Alfonsina Alfonsa Alfaretta Ragnhild Alfreida Alfair Alfrieda Alphild Alfia Alfa Alfredia Borghild Alfred Alford Alfreada Alferetta

Sibling names for Alfhild

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Hettie Cecil Ona Elda Erna

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer Gustave

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