Wilfried
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wilfried is a 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: ) Willfried: alter deutscher männl.
- DEGermany≈1 in 657(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.4K
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
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)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 657 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
) Willfried: alter deutscher männl. Vom. (ahd. wiUio »Wille« + ahd.ßidu »Schutz vor Waffengewalt, Friede»), dessen
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilfried 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 657 | 1 | Wilfried | 205 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #923 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 878 | — | Wilfried | 32 |
| CM Cameroon | #141 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Wilfried | 37 |
| FR France | #659 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 13K | Wilfried | 307 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #306 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Wilfried | 12 |
| TG Togo | #46 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Wilfried | 9 |
| BJ Benin | #37 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Wilfried | 24 |
| 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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the masakhane register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vilfredo Paretob. 1848FRnot in their usual nameItalian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
- Wilfried Martensb. 1936BEBelgian politician (1936–2013)
- Wilfried Klausb. 1941DEGerman actor
- Wilfried Van Moerb. 1945BEBelgian footballer (1945–2021)
- Wilfried Peetersb. 1964BEBelgian cyclist
- Wilfried Sanoub. 1984BFBurkinabé association football player
- Wilfried Bonyb. 1988CIIvorian association football player
- Wilfried Zahab. 1992CIIvorian association football player (born 1992)
- Wilfried Singob. 2000CIIvorian footballer
- Wilfried Gnontob. 2003ITItalian 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(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 13K | #3,103 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.3K | #909 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 779 | #2,435 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 36 | #10,289 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| CM Cameroon | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wilfried mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Willfried: alter deutscher männl.
- Is Wilfried a male or female name?
- Wilfried 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 are other forms of the name Wilfried?
- In the etymology graph, Wilfredo, Wilfred and Wil are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wilfried have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Wilfried in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilfried.
- How common is the name Wilfried?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,306 people named Wilfried, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Wilfried compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wilfried is the 169th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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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, “Wilfried” — the 169th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.