# Wilfried (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wilfried/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 20 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 | 4,780 |
| 1960 | 5 | 4,582 |
| 1961 | 5 | 4,646 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,539 |

## People named Wilfried

- Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician (1936–2013)
- Wilfried Sanou, Burkinabé association football player
- Wilfried Van Moer, Belgian footballer (1945–2021)
- Wilfried Hannes, German footballer
- Wilfried Puis, Belgian footballer (1943–1981)
- Wilfried, Austrian singer (1950–2017)
- Wilfried Gröbner, East German footballer and manager
- Wilfried Kanga, French and Ivorian association football player
- Wilfried Dalmat, French footballer
- Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
- Wilfried Benjamin Balima, Burkinabé footballer
- Wilfried Wesemael, Belgian cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.