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Manfred

Boys' name

Man + peace

Manfred has been given to 1,455 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 37 recorded.

Babies named Manfred, 2022

1 in 564,000

Manfred over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Manfred: meaning, origin, and history

Man + peace

German and Old High German

What Manfred means

Manfred means “man + peace”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Manfred is used in German, Dutch, Polish and Germanic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈman.fʁeːt/, /ˈmɑn.frət/ and /ˈman.frɛt/ for Manfred.

Origin, language, and formation

Manfred is used in English and German. Its origins include German and Old High German.

Manfred comes through German Manfred.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Manfred is pronounced /ˈma(ː)nˌfʁeːd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,455 boys were recorded with the name Manfred between 1904 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,157 in 1936.

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 Manfred?

Manfred had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Manfred sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Manfred. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Manfreds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Manfred was born before 1956 — so the typical Manfred is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
829
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (275).

Is Manfred 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 (37)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,157
1936

Spellings of Manfred

Manfred is not the most common spelling — Alfred is, with 94.9% against Manfred's 0.57%.

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 Manfred is used

Across 1910–2025, Manfred was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 289,511 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Manfred has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Manfred around the world

Where Manfred 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
    2008–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    1913–2023
    #5,565
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,910
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1951–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Manfred by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,157
1936
Peak year
1958
37 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,455
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Manfred

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

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Sibling names for Manfred

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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