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Alfred

Pronunciation
[Al-fred]
Gender
Male
Meaning
Elf counsel
Origin
English
Alfred is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Alfred is "elf or magical counsel". Queen Victoria named her second son Alfred.

Variant Forms

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
Al An Abbreviation Of Names Beginning With Al- Male English
Alfie English diminutive of Alfred, elf counsel Male English from Old English
Alfredo Elf counsel Male English
Avery Elf counsel Male English
Fred Peaceful ruler Male Germanic
Freddie Peaceful ruler Male German
Freddy Peaceful ruler Male German

Famous People Named Alfred

  • A. Alfred Taubman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist known for conceptualizing the modern shopping malls.
  • Alfred Adler was a physician and psychotherapist famous for founding the school of Individual Psychology.
  • Alfred Blalock was a renowned cardiologist and was responsible in changing the fate of cardiovascular science forever.
  • Alfred Day Hershey was an American bacteriologist and geneticist who won the 1969 Noble Prize in Medicine.
  • Alfred de Musset was a French dramatist and poet, regarded as one of the first Romantic writers.
  • Alfred de Vigny was a philosophical French Romantic writer.
  • Alfred Doblin was a physician cum novelist best known for the novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’.
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt was known as "the father of photojournalism".
  • Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who was elected as the Governor of New York for four times.
  • Alfred Hitchcock was an English movie director, famously dubbed as the ‘The Master of Suspense’.
  • Alfred Jodl was a top German military commander during the World War II and one of the leaders in the Nazi movement.
  • Alfred Kinsey was an American sexologist who ushered in the “Sexual Revolution”.
  • Alfred Korzybski was a Polish American scholar who developed a field called general semantics.
  • Alfred L. Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist.
  • Alfred Loisy was a famous French Roman Catholic priest.
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson was a famous English poet who also served as the poet laureate of United Kingdom.
  • Alfred Marshall was a great economist who authored ‘Principles of Economics’.
  • Alfred Newman was one of the most respected and famous music composers.
  • Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and a manufacturer of arms who left his vast fortunes to institute the Nobel Prizes.
  • Alfred North Whitehead was a British Mathematician who turned into a philosopher.