Wilfrid
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wilfrid is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In the Congo - Brazzaville it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Germanic name from wil ‘will’ + frid ‘peace’.
- FRFrance1 in 11K◐
- USUnited States1 in 363K
- MQMartinique1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 268 ●
- 1 in 36K ◐
across 5 countries
25K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wilfridus in ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Germanic name from wil ‘will’ + frid ‘peace’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #984 | 48,996 | 19K rec. | — | 8.1K | Wilfrid | 268 |
| US United States | — | 916 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 363K | 916 | Wilfrid | 107 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 840 | 61 rec. | — | — | Wilfridus | 39 |
| CA Canada | — | 674 | 663 rec. | — | 5 | Wilfrid | 39 |
| MQ Martinique | #265 | 571 | 18 rec. | — | 5 | Wilfrid | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #130 | 484 | 497 rec. | — | — | Wilfrid | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 483△ | 43 rec. | 1 in 36K | 483 | — | 6 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #361 | 400 | 14 rec. | — | 5 | Wilfrid | 7 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #697 | 226 | 242 rec. | — | — | Wilfrid | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | 182 | 199 rec. | — | — | Wilfrid | 17 |
| CM Cameroon | #723 | 112 | 126 rec. | — | — | Wilfrid | 9 |
| CL Chile | — | 104 | 97 rec. | — | 1 | Wilfrid | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French53K73%
- English11K16%
- German1.8K2%
- Spanish1.2K2%
- Portuguese8721%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 53,407 | 73% |
| English | 11,463 | 16% |
| German | 1,802 | 2% |
| Spanish | 1,160 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 872 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Wilfrid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Old English - Wilfriþ, a less common form of Wilfred.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du germ. wil 'volonté' + frid 'paix'. Saint Wilfrid, évêque de York; fête le 12 octobre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine germanique, de elements signifiant « volonté » et « paix ».
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1891 | 7 |
| 1893 | 7 |
| 1894 | 5 |
| 1895 | 5 |
| 1896 | 7 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1899 | 8 |
| 1900 | 9 |
| 1902 | 8 |
| 1903 | 8 |
| 1904 | 6 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1906 | 7 |
| 1907 | 13 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 8 |
| 1911 | 17 |
| 1912 | 22 |
| 1913 | 22 |
| 1914 | 31 |
| 1915 | 49 |
| 1916 | 30 |
| 1917 | 52 |
| 1918 | 42 |
| 1919 | 45 |
| 1920 | 48 |
| 1921 | 56 |
| 1922 | 57 |
| 1923 | 39 |
| 1924 | 53 |
| 1925 | 47 |
| 1926 | 41 |
| 1927 | 31 |
| 1928 | 52 |
| 1929 | 36 |
| 1930 | 37 |
| 1931 | 23 |
| 1932 | 26 |
| 1933 | 23 |
| 1934 | 23 |
| 1935 | 27 |
| 1936 | 16 |
| 1937 | 23 |
| 1938 | 20 |
| 1939 | 16 |
| 1940 | 15 |
| 1941 | 15 |
| 1942 | 17 |
| 1943 | 19 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 14 |
| 1946 | 14 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 12 |
| 1949 | 14 |
| 1950 | 11 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1960 | 9 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2020 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1887–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Wilfridb. 634GBChristian saint, Bishop of York from 664 to 678
- Wilfrid Scawen Bluntb. 1840GBBritish poet and writer (1840–1922)
- Wilfrid Laurierb. 1841CA7th prime minister of Canada (1841-1919)
- Wilfrid Voynichb. 1865USPolish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript (1865-1930)
- Rodney Heathb. 1884AUnot in their usual nameAustralian tennis player (1884-1936)
- Wilfrid Lawsonb. 1900GBBritish actor (1900–1966)
- Wilfrid Hyde-Whiteb. 1903GBBritish actor (1903–1991)
- Wilfrid Sellarsb. 1912USAmerican philosopher (1912-1989)
- Wilfrid Fox Napierb. 1941ZARoman Catholic cardinal
- Wilfrid Kaptoumb. 1996CMCameroonian association football player
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 38 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 351 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wilfrid?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Wilfrid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Wilfrid have the most bearers?
- Wilfrid is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled wilfrid.
- How common is Wilfrid compared with other names?
- In France, Wilfrid is the 984th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Wilfrid a male or female name?
- Wilfrid 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 Wilfrid mean?
- Recorded meaning: Germanic name from wil ‘will’ + frid ‘peace’.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wilfrid” — the 984th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.