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WILFRED

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: WIL-frəd   [key]

Means "desiring peace" from Old English wil "will, desire" and fred "peace". Saint Wilfrid was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop. The name was rarely used after the Norman conquest, but it was revived in the 19th century.
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