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Wilfrid

Boys' name

Will + peace

Wilfrid has been given to 1,419 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 1922, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Wilfrid, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wilfrid: meaning, origin, and history

Will + peace

Old English

What Wilfrid means

Wilfrid means “will + peace”, associated with wil and friþ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Inherited from Old English Wilfriþ, from wil (“will”) + friþ (“peace”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Wilfrid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Wilfrid is used in English and French. Its origins include Old English.

Wilfrid comes through Old English Wilfriþ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wilfred and Wilfried.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Wilfrid is pronounced /vil.fʁid/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,419 boys were recorded with the name Wilfrid between 1887 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 57 in 1922; its best national rank was #776 in 1907.

How common is Wilfrid?

Wilfrid had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wilfrid 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wilfrid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wilfrids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wilfrid was born before 1925 — so the typical Wilfrid is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
157
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1920s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (460).

Is Wilfrid 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (57)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#776
1907

Spellings of Wilfrid

Wilfrid is not the most common spelling — Wilfred is, with 48.3% against Wilfrid's 2.3%.

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 Wilfrid is used

Across 1910–2025, Wilfrid was most concentrated in New Hampshire — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 125,490 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Hampshire1 in 10,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  3. 3Maine1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Wilfrid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wilfrid around the world

Where Wilfrid 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
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2023
    #6,065
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1971–2003
    #588
    in 2003

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.

Wilfrid 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
#776
1907
Peak year
1922
57 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
1,419
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wilfrid

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

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Sibling names for Wilfrid

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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