Wilfredo
Just 33 men in Poland carry Wilfredo, and no boy has been given it this century: most Poles will never meet one. A Germanic name at root, built from roots for "desiring peace".
Wilfredo Pronunciation
Wilfredo is pronounced veelf-RE-do (/vilfˈrɛdɔ/).
What Wilfredo means
Where Wilfredo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wilfredo comes from the Germanic name Wilfrid, built from wil, "will" or "desire," and frid, "peace." Spanish speakers took the name in and made it theirs. The short meaning follows the two parts: desiring peace.
History gives it a real bearer. Wifredo el Velloso, Wilfred the Hairy, founded the county of Barcelona in the ninth century. Catalan chronicles count him among their earliest rulers, so the name reaches back more than a thousand years on the Iberian side. The Cuban painter Wifredo Lam carried the same root into the twentieth century.
The Germanic root and the Spanish sound sit together in one word. That pairing is the whole story of Wilfredo: a northern compound that settled in the south and stayed. Nothing about the name was softened in the move. The peace in frid is still the peace in the meaning parents read today: pragnący pokoju.
How many people are named Wilfredo
1 in 646854 men in Poland is named Wilfredo. 33 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7070 among male names.
Wilfredo as a middle name
Wilfredo is a first name for 33 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5110th, between Wilchelm (5) and Wilian (5).
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#5108 Wierusz5
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#5109 Wilchelm5
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#5110 Wilfredo5
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#5111 Wilian5
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#5112 Wilmer5