Wilfred

English
"desires peace"

Wilfred Origin and Meaning

The name Wilfred is a boy's name of English origin meaning "desires peace".

Wilfred is one of those Old Man Names that still sounds fusty in the US but is fashionable in the UK. It comes with readymade short forms Will or Fred and might make an adventurous alternative to the ubiquitous William. The central character of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe is the knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe. Wilfred Owens was a well-known British poet.

# 903 in the US

Wilfred Rank in US Top 1000

# 908 on Nameberry

Wilfred Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Wilfred Popularity

Famous People Named Wilfred

  • Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
    English poet
  • Wilfred Van Norman Lucas
    Canadian,American actor
  • Wilfred Rhodes
    English cricketer
  • Wilfred the Hairy
    Count of Barcelona
  • Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
    British Arabian explorer
  • Wilfred Emmons Jackson
    American Disney animator
  • Wilfred Benítez
    Puerto Rican boxer
  • Wilfred Tennant (b. 2013)
    son of actors David Tennant and Georgia Moffett
  • Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson (b. 2020)
    son of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds

Wilfred in Pop Culture

  • Wilfred
    dog on TV's "Wilfred"
  • Wilfred
    Knight of Ivanhoe, character in Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
  • Wilfred Toadflax
    mouse in the Brambly Hedge Mice books
  • Wilfred Morgenhall
    seedy old lawyer in John Mortimer's play The Dock Brief (1958)
  • The Hon. Wilfred Desert
    character in the Forsyte series by John Galsworthy
  • Wilfred Devizes
    mental specialist in "Christina Alberta's Father" (1925) by H. G. Wells
  • Wilfred Mott
    character from TV series "Doctor Who"