Fewer than five US girls were named Alfreda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #456, reached in 1925. The most girls given the name in a single year was 363, in 1958. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #599 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alfreda in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 11,418 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,507 babies named Alfreda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Alfreda; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 5.
Rarer spellings such as Alfrieda, Alfreida and Alfreeda are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Alfy, Freda, Freddy and Frieda.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan, Galician and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.