Wilfrid
About 1,419 American babies have been named Wilfrid since 1887, most of them around 1922. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 220 Wilfrids are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Wilfrid
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,419
- Estimated living today
- 220
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 924th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1887
How old the living Wilfrids are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,419 babies given the name since 1887, about 220 are alive — 15 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Wilfrids
- Wilfrid Laurier (1841–1919)7th prime minister of Canada
- Wilfrid Voynich (1865–1930)Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript
- Wilfrid Napier (born 1941)Roman Catholic cardinal
- Wilfrid (634–709)Christian saint, Bishop of York from 664 to 678
- Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989)American philosopher
- Wilfrid Kaptoum (born 1996)Cameroonian association football player
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922)British poet and writer
- Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903–1991)British actor
People named Wilfrid with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wilfrid is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Wilfrid is most concentrated in New Hampshire (62.3×), Massachusetts (24.1×), Maine (18.5×), New York (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Wilfrid peaked:
Wilfrid elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Wilfrid | 8,115 | 120th |
| England and Wales boys | Wilfrid | 240 | 1,786th |
| France girls | Wilfrid | 130 | 1,676th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Wilfrid among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Wilfrid | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Wilfrid against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.