Alfreds
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Alfred with post-medieval excrescent -s
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ælfɹɛdz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alfreds is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 249K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 279K
- SESweden≈1 in 714K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Alfred with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alfreds 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Alfreds | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Alfreds | 9 |
| US United States | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Alfreds | 82 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Alfreds | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Alfreds | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Alfreds | 24 |
| SE Sweden | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 714K | — | Alfreds | 6 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alfreds is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Berndt Alfredsb. 1915SESwedish architect (1915-1981)
- Mike Alfredsb. 1934GBEnglish theatre director, dramatist and playwright
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alfreds mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Alfred with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Alfreds?
- A machine transcription gives /ælfɹɛdz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Alfreds have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 836 people named Alfreds in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alfreds.
- How common is the name Alfreds?
- Mondonomo estimates about 840 people in Pakistan have Alfreds as their first surname, about 1 in 279 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alfredsThe 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, “Alfreds”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.