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Elfriede

Girls' name

Form of Elfreda

Elfriede has been given to 291 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1930, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Elfriede, 1961

1 in 828,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elfriede: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Elfreda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elfriede means

Elfriede is a form of Elfreda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Elfriede is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɛl.ˈfʁiː.də/ for Elfriede.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Elfriede → 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.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Elfriede is pronounced /ɛlˈfʁiːdə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 291 girls were recorded with the name Elfriede between 1912 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1930; its best national rank was #1,765 in 1930.

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 Elfriede?

Elfriede had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1961
1 in 828,000
5 of 4,142,426 births
Among girls only
1 in 404,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1961
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
574,263 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elfriede 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 1961 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 574,263 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elfriede. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elfriedes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elfriede was born before 1931 — so the typical Elfriede is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
15
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1930s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Elfriede 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 1930 (21)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,765
1930

Spellings of Elfriede

Elfriede is not the most common spelling — Elfrieda is, with 42.8% against Elfriede's 8.4%.

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 Elfriede is used

Across 1910–2025, Elfriede was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 189,491 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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

Elfriede around the world

Where Elfriede 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.

  • France
    1900–1966
    #2,096
    in 1966
  • South Australia
    1965–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Elfriede 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
#1,765
1930
Peak year
1930
21 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
291
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elfriede

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

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Sibling names for Elfriede

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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