# Alfred
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) +‎ rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery.
The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈælfɹəd/
* (Appalachians, dated) IPA: /ˈælfɚd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Proper noun

Alfred
* (individuals) Alfred the Great, early king of England.
    Alternative form: Ælfred
* A male given name from Old English.
** 1980, Graham Greene, Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party (fiction), →OCLC:Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.
** 1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This (fiction), University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86:You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.
* (rare) A surname originating as a patronymic.
* A town, the county seat of York County, Maine, United States.
* A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
* A community of Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.

#### Derived terms

* Alf, Alfie
* Alfred and Plantagenet
* Alfredian, Ælfredian
* Alfred Nzo
* King Alfred's cake

#### Related terms

* Alfreda f
* Alfredo, alfredo, fettuccine Alfredo
* Avery

#### Descendants

* → Danish: Alfred
* Esperanto: Alfredo
* Faroese: Alfred
* → Finnish: Alfred
* French: Alfred
* → German: Alfred
* Greek: Αλφρέδος (Alfrédos)
* Italian: Alfredo
* Norman: Alfred
* → Norwegian: Alfred
* Portuguese: Alfredo
* Spanish: Alfredo
** Cebuano: Alfredo
** Tagalog: Alfredo
* → Swedish: Alfred

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 7, page 98.

### Further reading

* Alfred (name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Alfred the Great on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Alfred, Maine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Alfred, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Falder, fardel, fardle, farled, flared, larfed

## Albanian
### Proper noun

Alfred m
* a male given name

#### Declension
## Azerbaijani
### Proper noun

Alfred (definite accusative Alfredi, plural Alfredlər)
* A transliteration of the English male given name Alfred
** 2004, Şəkərəliyev, A. Ş., Əliyev, Ş.T., Cavadov M. Ə., editors, Nobel Mükafatı almış iqtisadçılar və onların nəzəriyyələri‎, Baku: Elm, page 5:Alfred Nobel 21 oktyabr 1833-cü ildə İsveçdə anadan olmuş, 8 yaşı olarkən atası Emmanuil Nobelin çalışdığı Sankt-Peterburqa köçmüşdür.Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden on October 21, 1833, and at the age of eight, moved to St. Petersburg, where his father, Emmanuel Nobel, was working.
** 2006, Gylman Ilkin, Bakı və Bakılılar, page 149:Bu şirkətin müəssisləri üç qardaş: Lüdoviq, Robert, Alfred və bir də onların yaxın dostu […]The founders of this company were three brothers: Ludvig, Robert, Alfred and one of their close friends […]
** 2019, Manaf Süleymanov, Eşitdiklərim, oxuduqlarım, gördüklərim, page 185:Arvadı və iki oğlu Alfred və Elmar ilə Peterburqdan vətənə qayıdır […]He returned home from St. Petersburg with his wife and two sons, Alfred and Elmar […]

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Proper noun

Alfred
* a male given name

### References

* Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 21 194 males with the given name Alfred have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Alfred.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑl.frɛt/
* Hyphenation: Al‧fred

### Proper noun

Alfred m
* a male given name

## Faroese
### Etymology

Ultimately, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Proper noun

Alfred m
* a male given name

#### Usage notes

Patronymics:
* son of Alfred: Alfredsson
* daughter of Alfred: Alfredsdóttir

#### Declension
## Finnish
### Etymology

From English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd, possibly through Swedish Alfred.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑlfred/, [ˈɑ̝l.fre̞d]
* Rhymes: -ɑlfred
* Hyphenation: Alf‧red

### Proper noun

Alfred
* a male given name
* Alfred Nussi

#### Declension

Possessive forms of Alfred (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Alfredini
Alfredini
accusative
nom.
Alfredini
Alfredini
gen.
Alfredini
genitive
Alfredini
Alfredieni
partitive
Alfrediani
Alfredejani
inessive
Alfredissani
Alfredeissani
elative
Alfredistani
Alfredeistani
illative
Alfrediini
Alfredeihini
adessive
Alfredillani
Alfredeillani
ablative
Alfrediltani
Alfredeiltani
allative
Alfredilleni
Alfredeilleni
essive
Alfredinani
Alfredeinani
translative
Alfredikseni
Alfredeikseni
abessive
Alfredittani
Alfredeittani
instructive
comitative
—Alfredeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Alfredisi
Alfredisi
accusative
nom.
Alfredisi
Alfredisi
gen.
Alfredisi
genitive
Alfredisi
Alfrediesi
partitive
Alfrediasi
Alfredejasi
inessive
Alfredissasi
Alfredeissasi
elative
Alfredistasi
Alfredeistasi
illative
Alfrediisi
Alfredeihisi
adessive
Alfredillasi
Alfredeillasi
ablative
Alfrediltasi
Alfredeiltasi
allative
Alfredillesi
Alfredeillesi
essive
Alfredinasi
Alfredeinasi
translative
Alfrediksesi
Alfredeiksesi
abessive
Alfredittasi
Alfredeittasi
instructive
comitative
—Alfredeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Alfredimme
Alfredimme
accusative
nom.
Alfredimme
Alfredimme
gen.
Alfredimme
genitive
Alfredimme
Alfrediemme
partitive
Alfrediamme
Alfredejamme
inessive
Alfredissamme
Alfredeissamme
elative
Alfredistamme
Alfredeistamme
illative
Alfrediimme
Alfredeihimme
adessive
Alfredillamme
Alfredeillamme
ablative
Alfrediltamme
Alfredeiltamme
allative
Alfredillemme
Alfredeillemme
essive
Alfredinamme
Alfredeinamme
translative
Alfrediksemme
Alfredeiksemme
abessive
Alfredittamme
Alfredeittamme
instructive
comitative
—Alfredeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Alfredinne
Alfredinne
accusative
nom.
Alfredinne
Alfredinne
gen.
Alfredinne
genitive
Alfredinne
Alfredienne
partitive
Alfredianne
Alfredejanne
inessive
Alfredissanne
Alfredeissanne
elative
Alfredistanne
Alfredeistanne
illative
Alfrediinne
Alfredeihinne
adessive
Alfredillanne
Alfredeillanne
ablative
Alfrediltanne
Alfredeiltanne
allative
Alfredillenne
Alfredeillenne
essive
Alfredinanne
Alfredeinanne
translative
Alfrediksenne
Alfredeiksenne
abessive
Alfredittanne
Alfredeittanne
instructive
comitative
—Alfredeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
Alfredinsa
Alfredinsa
accusative
nom.
Alfredinsa
Alfredinsa
gen.
Alfredinsa
genitive
Alfredinsa
Alfrediensa
partitive
Alfrediaan Alfrediansa
Alfredejaan Alfredejansa
inessive
Alfredissaan Alfredissansa
Alfredeissaan Alfredeissansa
elative
Alfredistaan Alfredistansa
Alfredeistaan Alfredeistansa
illative
Alfrediinsa
Alfredeihinsa
adessive
Alfredillaan Alfredillansa
Alfredeillaan Alfredeillansa
ablative
Alfrediltaan Alfrediltansa
Alfredeiltaan Alfredeiltansa
allative
Alfredilleen Alfredillensa
Alfredeilleen Alfredeillensa
essive
Alfredinaan Alfredinansa
Alfredeinaan Alfredeinansa
translative
Alfredikseen Alfrediksensa
Alfredeikseen Alfredeiksensa
abessive
Alfredittaan Alfredittansa
Alfredeittaan Alfredeittansa
instructive
comitative
—Alfredeineen Alfredeinensa :

#### Statistics

* Alfred is the 513th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 389 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,583 more, making it much more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

## French
### Etymology

From English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.fʁɛd/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Alfred m
* a male given name
** 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 4; republished as Isabel F. Hapgood, transl., 1887:Il n’est pas rare aujourd’hui que le garçon bouvier se nomme Arthur, Alfred ou Alphonse, et que le vicomte — s’il y a encore des vicomtes — se nomme Thomas, Pierre ou Jacques. Ce déplacement qui met le nom « élégant » sur le plébéien et le nom campagnard sur l’aristocrate n’est autre chose qu’un remous d’égalité. L’irrésistible pénétration du souffle nouveau est là comme en tout.It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as everywhere else.

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈalfʁeːt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Al‧f‧red

### Proper noun

Alfred m (proper noun, strong, genitive Alfreds, plural Alfrede or Alfreds or (with an article) Alfred)
* a male given name, popular in the 19th century

#### Declension
## Norman
### Etymology

Ultimately, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Proper noun

Alfred m
* a male given name, equivalent to English Alfred

## Norwegian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Proper noun

Alfred
* a male given name

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈal.frɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alfrɛt
* Syllabification: Al‧fred

### Proper noun

Alfred m pers
* a male given name, equivalent to English Alfred

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Alfred in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English Alfred, from Old English Ælfræd. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1751.

### Proper noun

Alfred c (genitive Alfreds)
* a male given name, fashionable in the 19th century

### Anagrams

* farled