Manfred

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Manfred is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: evidently from the Germanic personal name Manfred, composed of the elements man ‘man’ +frid ‘peace’.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 196◐
  • ATAustria1 in 529
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈12K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
265 ●

643K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.7K ◐

Costa Rica

Meaning & origin●

evidently from the Germanic personal name Manfred, composed of the elements man ‘man’ +frid ‘peace’. The surname is rare in Germany, however, while the personal name was common in Lombardy, and Italian sources derive the first element from magin ‘strength’. Compare Maneredo. Manfred! (913) Italian: patronymic or plural form of Manfredo.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Manfred is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#21619,326580K rec.——Manfred262
AT Austria#11331,26415K rec.—1.9KManfred161
NL Netherlands—5,3741.1K rec.—976Manfred69
FR France—5,1702.5K rec.—435Manfred176
CH Switzerland#1623,6471.4K rec.——Manfred88
SE Sweden—3,162△177 rec.1 in 3.2K3.2KManfred41
US United States—3,07421K rec.1 in 108K3.1KManfred265
PL Poland—2,0963.4K rec.1 in 18K2.1KManfred2
BE Belgium#9022,0161.9K rec.——Manfred48
CR Costa Rica#2631,9233.8K rec.1 in 2.7K1.9KManfred61
PE Peru—1,3811.2K rec.——Manfred26
GB United Kingdom—1,011794 rec.—listedManfred70

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German680K87%
  • English34K4%
  • Spanish15K2%
  • Polish9.9K1%
  • Portuguese7.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German680,04787%
English33,6464%
Spanish15,2002%
Polish9,8881%
Portuguese7,0661%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Manfred is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name16K records spelled Manfred21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Croatia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Манфред, Manfréd, Манфрэд

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Manfred2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Manfréd

  • Thai given name501 records spelled Manfred13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written แมนเฟรด, มันเฟรด, มานเฟรด, มานเฟร็ด, แมนเฟร็ด

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Manfred is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, a male given name from Old High German, popular in the 20th century

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, ) Manfried: männl. Vom., normannische Form von Manfried (ahd. man »Mann« + ahd. fridu »Schutz vor

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Swedish, Manfred är ett tyskt namn, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt man ’man, människa’ och → -frid, -fried. I den rikssvenska almanackan 12 oktober.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Origine germanique, signifie « homme de paix ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, From Germanic man 'man' + frid 'peace'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020304019201940196019802000202037 · 1958

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Manfred in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1904–2022
Yearrecords
19045
19115
19127
191312
19149
191516
191610
191712
191815
191916
19209
192110
192222
192311
192416
192512
192615
192716
192827
192928
193022
193120
19328
193322
193420
193529
193633
193731
193826
193927
194020
194111
19428
194313
194410
19459
19468
194719
19489
19498
19507
195111
195214
195320
195419
195524
195632
195714
195837
195922
196024
196137
196228
196330
196437
196533
196626
196723
196819
196918
197016
197116
197215
197310
197411
197514
197610
197711
19789
197913
19808
19816
19825
19836
19856
198611
198710
19888
198915
19909
199210
19938
19947
199512
19967
19977
19987
19997
20006
20015
200210
20035
20056
20107
20116
20145
20167
20175
20207
20215
20226

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1904–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

188019001920194019601980Manfred von Richthofen, b. 1892Zeppo Marx, b. 1901Manfred von Ardenne, b. 1907Manfred Eigen, b. 1927Manfred Gerlach, b. 1928Manfred Rommel, b. 1928Freddy Quinn, b. 1931Manfred Stolpe, b. 1936Manfred Kaltz, b. 1953Manfred Weber, b. 1972

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 80 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Manfred
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.2K#803
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.1K#5,540
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2.1K#328
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262.1K#342
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1.9K#367
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20241.9K#1,263
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.1K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—976#2,105
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—630#591
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—472#511
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—460#2,161
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010436#48,436

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 470 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Manfred?
We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Manfred (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Manfred have the most bearers?
Manfred is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled manfred.
How common is Manfred compared with other names?
In Germany, Manfred is the 21st most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Manfred a male or female name?
Manfred is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Manfred mean?
Recorded meaning: evidently from the Germanic personal name Manfred, composed of the elements man ‘man’ +frid ‘peace’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Manfred” — the 21st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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