Wilfrid
Wilfrid was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 1,419 Americans have been recorded with it between 1887 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilfrid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wilfrid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wilfrid is “a male given name from Old English, a less common form of Wilfred.” Its etymology gives the senses “will” (wil) and “peace” (friþ).
Inherited from Old English Wilfriþ, from wil (“will”) + friþ (“peace”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wilfrid?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,941, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1922, the peak
Wilfrid peaked in 1922, when 57 boys were given it, #927 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,941 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,665 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,508 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,410 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,503 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,208 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,569 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #4,044 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,974 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,243 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #4,036 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,845 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,644 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,073 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,982 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,964 | 4.3 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,444 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,704 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,866 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,660 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,434 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,120 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,322 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,088 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,028 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,924 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,461 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,694 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,796 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,899 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,890 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,791 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,557 | 18.0 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,443 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,799 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,325 | 25.9 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,460 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,453 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,385 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,487 | 22.1 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,172 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,171 | 33.5 |
| 1928 | 52 | #949 | 46.9 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,349 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,122 | 36.9 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,010 | 42.1 |
| 1924 | 53 | #978 | 46.8 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,156 | 35.6 |
| 1922 | 57 | #927 | 52.4 |
| 1921 | 56 | #949 | 50.8 |
| 1920 | 48 | #1,002 | 45.1 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,021 | 45.9 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,059 | 41.4 |
| 1917 | 52 | #891 | 56.2 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,238 | 33.7 |
| 1915 | 49 | #892 | 57.7 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,015 | 47.3 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,110 | 42.9 |
| 1912 | 22 | #999 | 51.2 |
| 1911 | 17 | #821 | 75.2 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,307 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,674 | 30.5 |
| 1907 | 13 | #776 | 88.5 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,107 | 52.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,417 | 37.8 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,197 | 46.8 |
| 1903 | 8 | #909 | 67.1 |
| 1902 | 8 | #928 | 65.2 |
| 1900 | 9 | #965 | 59.8 |
| 1899 | 8 | #853 | 75.3 |
| 1897 | 7 | #938 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 7 | #978 | 58.5 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,237 | 42.6 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,231 | 43.2 |
| 1893 | 7 | #901 | 62.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #835 | 69.2 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,063 | 49.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilfrid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilfrid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wilfrid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilfrid, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Wilfrid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 54 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 922 people named Wilfrid (6 women and girls, 916 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 290 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Wilfrid born?
The states with the most babies named Wilfrid are Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Maine are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 165 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| New Hampshire | 55 | not ranked | 9.8× |
| Maine | 23 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Wilfrid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wilfrid is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 3.5 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 boys’ 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 Wilfrid 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 41,867 babies since 1880, Wilfrid is the third most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 38 babies recorded by SSA was a Wilfrid (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Wilfrid
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 Wilfrid and names like it
- Compare Wilfrid and WilfredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWilfrid peaked in 1922.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilfrid since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Wilfrid.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wilfrid alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.