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View Name: Wilfred
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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