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Elfreda

Girls' name

Elf + strength

Elfreda has been given to 934 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1917, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Elfreda, 1978

1 in 453,000

Elfreda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elfreda: meaning, origin, and history

Elf + strength

Old English

What Elfreda means

Elfreda means “elf + strength”, associated with ælf and þrȳþ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English Ælfþrȳþ (from ælf (“elf”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)); later partly merged with æþel (“noble”) + þrȳþ (“strength”) ( =Audrey).

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Origin, language, and formation

Elfreda is used in English. Its origins include Old English.

Elfreda comes through Old English Ælfþrȳþ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 934 girls were recorded with the name Elfreda between 1887 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1917; its best national rank was #866 in 1894.

How common is Elfreda?

Elfreda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 453,000
7 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
314,258 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elfreda 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 1978 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 314,258 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elfreda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elfredas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elfreda was born before 1926 — so the typical Elfreda is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
166
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1920s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Elfreda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (40)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#866
1894

Spellings of Elfreda

Elfreda is not the most common spelling — Freda is, with 71.5% against Elfreda's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Elfreda is used

Across 1910–2025, Elfreda was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,620,242 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Elfreda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elfreda around the world

Where Elfreda 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2013
    #4,739
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elfreda 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
#866
1894
Peak year
1917
40 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
934
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elfreda

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

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Sibling names for Elfreda

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

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