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Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | (germanic) wil (will) and frið (peace) in Old English |
Meaning | "Who he wants peace?" |
Other names | |
Related names | Wilfried, Wilfrid |
Wilfred and Wifred are masculine given names derived from Germanic roots meaning "will" and "peace" (like Old English wil and frið) . Wilfred was popular in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century. Wilfried and its English spelling Wilfrid are closely related to Wilfred with the same roots (Will and Frieden in German)
Wilfred may refer to:
- Saint Wilfred the Younger, saint and Bishop of York in England in the 8th century
- Wilfred (TV series), an Australian comedy series
- Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a knight, the hero of Ivanhoe
- Wilfred Owen, a war poet
See also
- Wilfried, also spelled Wilfrid
- Wilfried (given name) a masculine given name
- Wilfrid (c. 634 – 709), Anglo-Saxon bishop and saint
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada
- Wilfrid, one of The Bash St. Kids
- Jo-Wilfried