Fewer than five US girls were named Elfrieda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #654, reached in 1898. The most girls given the name in a single year was 67, in 1917. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #4,901 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Elfrieda in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 8 babies. In all, 1,487 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 401 babies named Elfrieda.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Elfrieda.
Rarer spellings such as Elfreda, Elfreida and Elfrida are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.