Manfred

German

"man of peace"

Manfred Origin and Meaning

The name Manfred is a boy's name of German origin meaning "man of peace".

Hipsters might consider reviving this old German name, though we're not so sure their sons wouldn't have preferred the classic Fred name Frederick. Manfred B. Lee (born Manford) was half of the team of detective story writers who used the pseudonym Ellery Queen; Manfred Mann was a British pop group of the 1960's, with Manfred Mann (born Michael Liebowitz) at the keyboard. There's also a wooly mammoth named Manfred, and nicknamed Manny, in the film Ice Age.

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Famous People Named Manfred

• Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen aka The Red Baron German WWI flying ace
• Manfred Clynes Austrian musician and inventor
• Manfred Rommel German politician
• Manfred von Ardenne German physicist
• Manfred Honeck Austrian conductor
• Manfred Kelkel French composer
• Manfred Freiherr von Killinger German naval officer
• Manfred Eigen German biochemist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Manfred in Pop Culture

• Manfred usurping Prince of Otranto in first of true Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto (1765) by Horace Walpole
• Manfred von Karma character in the Ace Attorney series
• Mighty Manfred Tom Terrific's Wonder Dog
• Manfred mammoth character from the Ice Age movie series
• Manfred Bloor character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• It was a Norman name but never popular in England; had a slight revival in the 19th century as a Romantic name, e.g. in the poem by Byron (1817)
• Manfred Mann British rock band