Walfried
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Walafried; Waldfried; Wal- fred: alter deutscher männl
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2001
/valfʁiːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Walfried is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- ATAustria
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)) Walafried; Waldfried; Wal- fred: alter deutscher männl. Vom. (ahd. walt- zu waltan »walten, herrschen« oder ahd. walah »der Welsche« + ahd. fridu »Schutz vor Waffengewalt, Friede«).
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Walfried Daniel Troeltschb. 1741Bavarian Protestant theologian, pastor and superintendent (1741–1811)
- Carl Walfried von Sternb. 1819SE16 Dec 1819 - 19 Nov 1874
- Walfried Marxb. 1854DEGerman mathematician (1854-1887)
- Walfried Chielensb. 1911Brugge , 26 december 1911 - Brasschaat , 21 februari 2006 (man)
- Walfried Königb. 1938DEGerman university teacher
- Walfried Huberb. 1942ATAustrian sculptor
- Walfried Böckerb. 2000DEGerman composer, record producer and jazz musician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #12,499 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2001 | 2 | #797 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1944 | 2 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2001 | 1 | #1,671 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1992 | 1 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1993 | 1 | #1,142 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1959 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1955 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1925 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Walfried?
- A machine transcription gives /valfʁiːt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Walfried a male or female name?
- Walfried 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 Walfried mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Walafried; Waldfried; Wal- fred: alter deutscher männl.
- In which country does Walfried have the most bearers?
- Walfried is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/walfriedThe 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, “Walfried”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.