Alfredo

A boys’ name of Germanic origin, meaning wise counsel, elf counsel.

Babies a year
461
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#820
down from #780
UK popularity
#3256
6 babies

How Alfredo has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#505#697#888201520202025#820

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#589
2016#573
2017#589
2018#612
2019#647
2020#747
2021#708
2022#704
2023#741
2024#780
2025#820

Alfredo by the numbers

In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Alfredo. In the US, 461 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 1,080 babies in 1993, making it a 1990s name.

At its height, in 1995, about 1 in 1,900 American boys born that year was called Alfredo.

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Alfredo as a share of American boys born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Alfredo. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Alfredelf counsel682 in England and Wales (2025)

Other names that mean wisdom

Like Alfredo, each of these has wisdom in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
  • Quinndescendant of Conn; wise and intelligent4,467 in the US (2017)
  • Alfiewise counsel; from Alfred1,955 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Sagewise one1,669 in the US (2017)
  • Skylerscholar, learned one; modern respelling of Schuyler1,459 in the US (2017)
  • Reggiecounsel power; from Reginald1,312 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Alfredo

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