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Elfrida

Girls' name

Variant of Elfreda

Elfrida has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1958, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Elfrida, 1959

1 in 832,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elfrida: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Elfreda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elfrida means

Elfrida is a variant of Elfreda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Elfrida is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elfrida → Elfreda. The family’s meaning is “elf + strength”, recorded in English with the source elements ælf and þrȳþ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elfreda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Elfrida between 1896 and 1959. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,463 in 1896.

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 Elfrida?

Elfrida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1959, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1959
1 in 832,000
5 of 4,157,642 births
Among girls only
1 in 405,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1959
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
576,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elfrida 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 1959 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 576,373 children born in 1959 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elfrida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elfridas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elfrida was born before 1958 — so the typical Elfrida is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
64.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
38
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1950s — 64.4% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Elfrida 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 1958 (28)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
82.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,463
1896

Spellings of Elfrida

Elfrida is not the most common spelling — Alfreda is, with 33.1% against Elfrida's 0.17%.

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 Elfrida is used

Across 1910–2025, Elfrida was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,535,115 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Elfrida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elfrida around the world

Where Elfrida 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
    2017–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1904–1954
    #1,424
    in 1954
  • South Australia
    1945–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elfrida 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
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Best rank ever
#1,463
1896
Peak year
1958
28 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
1959
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elfrida

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

ElfreidaElfidaRuwaidaZubaidaNahidaRufaidaKhalidaVernidaElfrediaAdalidaAlfridaBridaFahmidaDalidaSanjidaCressidaMarkidaHridaSharidaCheridaJahaidaQueridaYoshidaLaquida

Sibling names for Elfrida

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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