Alfred

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Alfred

Gender: Masculine
Language: English, French, German
Etymology:
Alfred is the modern English masculine form of Aelfraed, an Old English name which meant “Elf Advice,” “With Elf Wisdom,” “Good Counsel,” or “All Peace,” from “aelf” (elf), and “raed” (advice, counsel), or “fried” (peace).

History:
Alfred was an Anglo-Saxon name displaced by the Norman Invasion of 1066. The Normans took the name in its Latin form (Aluredus, or Alvredus) and adapted it as Alveré or Auveré. Alveré then became the modern Avery. Still unknown in England, Alfred also spread to Italy and Spain (as Alfredo). Finally, Alfred itself was revived in the late 18th century century.

Pronunciation: AL-fred.

Diminutives: Al, Alf, Alfie, Alfey, Fred, Freddie, Freddy.

Alternates: Alfrid, Alured.
French (Norman): Avery, Alvery, Alveré, Auveré.
Hawaiian: Alepeleke, Alepeleko.
Irish Gaelic: Ailfried.
Italian: Alfredo.
Latin: Alfredus.
Latin (Medieval): Aluredus, Alvredus.
Spanish: Alfredo.

Feminine: Alfreda.

See also: Alfredo, Alf, Alfie, Alured, Avery.

Famous Bearers:
Artists and Authors:
Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
British poet.
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
French poet.
Alfred Rethel (1816-1859)
German artist.
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)
British architect.
Alfred B. Mullett (1834-1890)
British-American architect.
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
French painter.
Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
British poet.
Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934)
French musician.
Alfred-Denis Cortot (1877-1962)
French pianist.
Alfred Kubin (1877-1959)
Austrian artist.
Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
British poet.
Alfred Einstein (1813-1913)
German-American music critic.
Alfred Joseph Casson (1898-1992)
Canadian painter.
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995)
German photojournalist.
Alfred Bester (1913-1987)
American science fiction writer.
Alfred Hauge (1915-1986)
Norwegian novelist.
Alfred Brendel (1931-)
Austrian pianist.
Alfred Corn (1943-)
American poet.

Educators, Scholars, and Social Workers:
Alfred, Ritter von Arneth (1819-1897)
Austrian historian.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
British humanist and social reformer.
Alfred Theophil Holder (1840-1916)
Austrian-German linguist.
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)
English economist.
Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921)
Austrian pacifist. Winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Peace.
Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934)
English editor and social reformer.
Alfred V. Kidder (1885-1963)
American archaeologist.
Alfred Métraux (1902-1963)
Swiss anthropologist.
Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906-1963)
A president of Yale University.

Fictional Characters:
Alfred (the Butler) Pennyworth
From the Batman comic books, films, and television shows.

Miscellaneous:
Alfred Krupp (1812-1997)
German steel industrialist.
Alfred Ely Beach (1926-1896)
American publisher of Scientific American.
Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen (1833-1913)
German military strategist.
Alfred-Amédée Dodds (1842-1922)
French military figure.
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930)
German admiral.
Sir Alfred Sharpe (1853-1935)
British adventurer.
Alfred Redl (1864-1913)
Austrian spy.
Alfréd Hajós (1878-1955)
Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
Alfred Jodi (1890-1946)
German general during WWII. Executed.
Alfred A. Knopf (1892-1984)
American publisher.

Political Figures:
Alfred Moore (1755-1810)
Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alfred Domett (1811-1887)
Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Alfred Escher (1819-1882)
Swiss politician.
Alfred Gilpin Jones (1824-1906)
Canadian politician.
Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852-1912)
German statesman.
Alfred Deakin (1856-1919)
Prime Minister of Australia.
Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987)
Governor of Kansas and presidential candidate.

Religious Figures:
Alfred Saker (1814-1880)
British missionary to West Africa.
Alfred George Edwards (1848-1937)
First archbishop of Wales.

Royalty:
King Alfred of Wessex (849-899)
Called Alfred the Great. Defeated the Danes.

Scientists:
Alfred Newton (1829-1907)
British zoologist.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896)
Swedish chemist. Invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Brandt (1846-1899)
German civil engineer.
Alfred Elis Törnebohm (1838-1911)
Swedish geologist.
Alfred Binet (1857-1911)
French psychologist.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
British mathematician.
Alfred Church Lane (1863-1948)
American geologist.
Alfred Lacroix (1863-1948)
French mineralogist.
Alfred Werner (1866-1919)
Swiss chemist. Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Austrian psychiatrist.
Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950)
Polish-American scientist.
Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1891-1970)
American geneticist.
Alfred C. Kensey (1894-1956)
American zoologist.
Alfred Sherwood Romer (1894-1973)
American paleontologist.
Alfred Blalcock (1899-1964)
American surgeon.
Alfred Kastler (1902-1984)
French physicist. Winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Alfred Tarski (1902-1983)
Polish-American mathematician.
Alfred Peter Wolf (1923-1998)
American nuclear and organic chemist.
Alfred G. Gilman (1941-)
American pharmacologist. Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Singers and Entertainers:
Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
English filmmaker.
Alfred Drake (1914-1992)
American actor and singer.

Popularity:
Percentage from the 1990 U.S. Census:
0.162 % named Alfred
0.054 % named Alfredo
0.023 % named Al
0.011 % named Avery

Popularity of Alfred:
Popularity (for newborns):
In the United States...
1800: 66th most popular.
1850: 28th most popular.
1875: 34th most popular.
1900-1910: 33rd most popular.
1910-1920: 42nd most popular.
1920-1930: 40th most popular.
1930-1940: 61st most popular.
1940-1950: 92nd most popular.
1950-1960: 120th most popular.
1960-1970: 164th most popular.
1970-1980: 224th most popular.
1980-1990: 296th most popular.
1990: 378th most popular.
1991: 395th most popular.
1992: 400th most popular.
1993: 529th most popular.
1994: 476th most popular.
1995: 480th most popular.
1996: 494th most popular.
1997: 522nd most popular.
1998: 527th most popular.
1999: 566th most popular.
2000: 575th most popular.
2001: 582nd most popular.
2002: 651st most popular.
2003: 683rd most popular.

In France...
1900: 26th most popular.
1910: 28th most popular.
1920: 33rd most popular.
1930: 43rd most popular.
1940: 53rd most popular.
1950: 94th most popular.
1960: 143rd most popular.
1964: 179th most popular.
1970-2000: N/A