Elfreda

Where Elfreda comes from

From Old English Ælfþrȳþ (from ælf (“elf”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)); later partly merged with æþel (“noble”) + þrȳþ (“strength”) ( =Audrey).
— Wiktionary's entry for Elfreda
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1887
    First appearance
    #1,036 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #850
    13 babies named Elfreda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1901
    Elfreda Reyes born
    labor organizer, suffragette, women's rights activist and political activist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Old English borne by a medieval English queen; rare today.
Namesakes
  • Elfreda Reyes · labor organizer, suffragette, women's rights activist and political activist, 1901–1992

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.