Alfred

Alfred is the 5,149th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,564 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,564
Rank: 5,149th
How common: 1 in 45,500
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd. Equivalent to elf + rede.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Alfred described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 59.8%
White, not Hispanic 25.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844–1900)Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900
Julien Alfred (born 2001)Saint Lucian sprinter
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874–1899)British Royal Family member
Prince Alfred, 3rd Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1851–1927)Czech member of Czech council

People named Alfred with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Alfred

Also a first name

Alfred has been given to 245,153 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1928. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.