Wilfried
Fewer than eighty men in Poland carry this Germanic name, and no boy has been given it in the last quarter century: most Poles have never met one. It comes from roots meaning "desiring peace".
Wilfried Pronunciation
Wilfried is pronounced VEELFR-yet (/ˈvilfrjɛt/).
What Wilfried means
Where Wilfried comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wilfried grows from two old Germanic words. The first, wil, means will or desire. The second, frid, means peace. Together they build the sense the Polish site records: pragnący pokoju, one who desires peace.
The German spelling keeps that second syllable, fried, close to Frieden, the modern German word for peace. English speakers know the cognate as Wilfrid. Saint Wilfrid of York, a bishop who died around 709, argued for Roman church custom in Northumbria and left the name in church calendars. The peace in this name is literal, present from the start rather than attached later.
Wilfried reads as plainly German today. A boy with this name on a class register sits between shorter, newer names. His two syllables still name a desire for peace.
How many people are named Wilfried
1 in 280871 men in Poland is named Wilfried. 76 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4111 among male names.
Wilfried as a middle name
Wilfried is a first name for 76 men in Poland and a middle name for another 44, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1193rd, between Tuấn (44) and Zoltan (44).
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#1191 Tomir44
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#1192 Tuấn44
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#1193 Wilfried44
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#1194 Zoltan44
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#1195 Alvaro43