Alfreda
Alfreda was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 11,418 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,620 Americans named Alfreda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 59 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alfreda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alfreda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alfreda is “a female given name from Old English.”
Originally a variant of Elfreda, used as a feminine form of Alfred since the 19th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alfreda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,798, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
363 babies in 1958, the peak
Alfreda peaked in 1958, when 363 girls were given it, #504 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #15,798 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,640 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,300 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,214 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,135 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,781 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 12 | #7,110 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,070 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,316 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,180 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,696 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,159 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,202 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,749 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,624 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,236 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,369 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,196 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,801 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,874 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,963 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,677 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,332 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 91 | #1,209 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,239 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 93 | #1,161 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,222 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 96 | #1,191 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 82 | #1,234 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 111 | #991 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 122 | #926 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 115 | #949 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 152 | #803 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 171 | #797 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 215 | #689 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 236 | #661 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 242 | #661 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 274 | #600 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 294 | #571 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 363 | #504 | 0.18 |
| 1957 | 273 | #583 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 267 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 244 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 230 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 203 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 233 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1951 | 188 | #634 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 199 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1949 | 151 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 139 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 135 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 119 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 99 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 132 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 125 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 132 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1941 | 106 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 115 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 104 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 107 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 128 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 115 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 104 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 130 | #562 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 112 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 103 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 128 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 134 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 148 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 166 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 181 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 196 | #497 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 231 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1924 | 228 | #459 | 0.18 |
| 1923 | 198 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1922 | 199 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 181 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 205 | #474 | 0.17 |
| 1919 | 178 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1918 | 196 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 174 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 176 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 136 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 107 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1913 | 77 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 59 | #648 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 46 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1910 | 31 | #768 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 37 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1908 | 39 | #604 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 22 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 26 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 24 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 26 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 22 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 16 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 22 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 18 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 18 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 24 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 30 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 13 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 11 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 16 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 10 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 13 | #750 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 11 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 8 | #963 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 9 | #792 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 7 | #681 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alfreda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alfreda has been given almost only to girls: 35 boys in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alfreda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alfreda, and how old are they?
5,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 49% of the 11,418 Americans ever recorded as Alfreda. The median Alfreda alive today is 67 years old; half are between 59 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 5,916 people named Alfreda (5,866 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 625 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 364 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 32 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alfreda born?
The states with the most babies named Alfreda are New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 901 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 844 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 531 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 476 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 410 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 393 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 389 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 379 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 379 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 335 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Alfreda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alfreda is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alfreda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 13,852 babies since 1880, Alfreda is the most given (82% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alfreda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alfreda and names like it
- Compare Alfreda and AlfrediaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sAlfreda peaked in 1958.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alfreda since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Alfreda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Alfreda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alfreda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.