Winfried
A Germanic name meaning "friend of peace". Only about 70 men in Poland carry it and no boys have been given it in years, so meeting one would stick with you.
Winfried Pronunciation
Winfried is pronounced VEENFR-yet (/ˈvinfrjɛt/).
What Winfried means
Where Winfried comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Winfried grew from two old Germanic words. "Wini" meant friend, and "fridu" meant peace. Together they give the sense the name still holds: friend of peace. The variant winfryd keeps the same two halves.
The name has a German home. Its most famous bearer was born Wynfrith in Wessex around 675 and went east as a missionary. History remembers him as Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans. He took a Latin name in the church, though his birth name stayed Germanic.
In modern Germany the name still works. Winfried Kretschmann has led Baden-Württemberg since 2011. So the meaning sits next to a real life in politics, easy to check.
A boy called Winfried in Poland meets his name on the class register. It reads as foreign there, and the Polish gloss, przyjaciel pokoju, explains it plainly. Friend of peace, spelled winfried or winfryd.
How many people are named Winfried
1 in 300651 men in Poland is named Winfried. 71 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4287 among male names.
Winfried as a middle name
Winfried is a first name for 71 men in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2463rd, between Williams (15) and Yaroslav (15).
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#2461 Wiaczesław15
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#2462 Williams15
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#2463 Winfried15
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#2464 Yaroslav15
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#2465 Yousuf15