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Wilfried

Boys' name

English equivalent of Wilfred

Wilfried has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1927, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Wilfried, 1967

1 in 679,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wilfried: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Wilfred

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wilfried means

Wilfried is a English equivalent of Wilfred.

Origin, language, and formation

Wilfried is used in French and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wilfred and Wilfrid.

Pronunciation and spelling

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Wilfried between 1927 and 1967. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1927; its best national rank was #4,537 in 1967.

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 Wilfried?

Wilfried had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1967, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1967
1 in 679,000
5 of 3,394,772 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1967
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
470,616 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wilfried 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 1967 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 470,616 children born in 1967 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wilfried. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wilfrieds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wilfried was born before 1960 — so the typical Wilfried is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Wilfried 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 1927 (5)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,537
1967

Spellings of Wilfried

Wilfried is not the most common spelling — Wilfred is, with 58.2% against Wilfried's 0.04%.

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.

Wilfried around the world

Where Wilfried 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
    1919–2024
    #3,000
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–1962
    #548
    in 1962

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.

Wilfried 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
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Best rank ever
#4,537
1967
Peak year
1927
5 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
1967
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wilfried

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

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Sibling names for Wilfried

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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