Elfriede
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic: ‘noble peace’, but compare English Elfreda in main dictionary
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/ɛlˈfʁiːdə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Elfriede is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 810(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 830
- BEBelgium≈1 in 10Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 806 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Germanic: ‘noble peace’, but compare English Elfreda in main dictionary.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Elfriede, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Elfriede counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #294 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 806 | 3 | Elfriede | 143 |
| AT Austria | #224 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 829 | 128 | Elfriede | 83 |
| US United States | — | 1,867 | 1 in 178K | 1.9K | Elfriede | 154 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Elfriede | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,113 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Elfriede | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 365 | 1 in 28K | 365 | — | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Elfriede is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a female given name, equivalent to English Elfreda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from alf 'elf' + fridu 'peace'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Elfriede Lohse-Wächtlerb. 1899DEGerman artist (1899-1940)
- Elfriede Scholzb. 1903DEGerman dressmaker, sister of Erich Maria Remarque, victim of Nazism (1903–1943)
- Elfriede Geiringerb. 1905ATHolocaust survivor and second wife to Otto Frank (1905–1998)
- Elfriede Florinb. 1912DEGerman actress (1912-2006)
- Elfriede Kaunb. 1914DEGerman high jumper (1914–2008)
- Gudrun Burwitzb. 1929DEnot in their usual nameGerman Neo-Nazi and daughter of SS chief Heinrich Himmler (1929-2018)
- Elfriede Gerstlb. 1932ATAustrian writer (1932–2009)
- Eldrid Lundenb. 1940NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian poet and creative writing professor
- Elfriede Jelinekb. 1946ATAustrian playwright and novelist
- Elfriede Schüsselederb. 1951ATAustrian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Elfriede mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic: ‘noble peace’, but compare English Elfreda in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Elfriede have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Elfriede in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elfriede.
- What are other forms of the name Elfriede?
- In the etymology graph, Freida, Elfrida and Elfrieda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Elfriede?
- In German /ɛlˈfʁiːdə/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Elfriede a male or female name?
- Elfriede is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), France (INSEE, 1960) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), among others.
- How common is the name Elfriede?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,867 people named Elfriede in 2020, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
- How common is Elfriede compared with other names?
- In Germany, Elfriede is the 294th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/elfriedeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Elfriede” — the 294th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.