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
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.