Alfredo

Where Alfredo comes from

From Alfredo alla Scrofa, an Italian restaurant in Rome where the pasta dish fettuccine Alfredo was originally served, named after its founder Alfredo Di Lelio. Doublet of Alfred.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alfredo
  • Italian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    First appearance
    #752 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1912
    Alfredo Stroessner born
    military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
  3. 1926
    Alfredo Di Stéfano born
    Argentine-Spanish association football player
  4. 1980
    Peak, #266
    820 babies named Alfredo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #748.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian.
Namesakes
  • Alfredo Di Stéfano · Argentine-Spanish association football player, 1926–2014
  • Alfredo Stroessner · military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989, 1912–2006
  • Alfredo Palacio · Ecuadorian physician, 1939–2025
  • Alfredo Foni · Italian footballer, 1911–1985
  • Alfredo Anderson · Panamanian association football player, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.