Wîlfried
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wîlfried is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Benin it is the 37th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from the German equivalent of English Wilfred. Doublet of Wilfrid.
- DEGermany≈1 in 710(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 840few records
- BJBenin≈1 in 1.1Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 706 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wilfried in DE Germany, FR France, NL Netherlands and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from the German equivalent of English Wilfred. Doublet of Wilfrid.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wîlfried counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #169 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 706 | — | Wilfried | 205 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #923 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 837 | — | Wilfried | 32 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #306 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Wilfried | 12 |
| BJ Benin | #37 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Wilfried | 24 |
| FR France | #659 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 13K | Wilfried | 307 |
| GA Gabon | #361 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 67 | Wilfried | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,306 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Wilfried | 52 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wîlfried mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from the German equivalent of English Wilfred. Doublet of Wilfrid. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Wîlfried a male or female name?
- Wîlfried 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Wîlfried?
- Mondonomo estimates about 118 thousand people named Wîlfried in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilfried. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wîlfried?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,306 people named Wîlfried, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Wîlfried compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wîlfried is the 169th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wîlfried?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%AElfriedThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Wîlfried” — the 169th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.