MEANING & HISTORY
What does Wilfrido mean?
A university-hosted linguistic study explicitly pairs Wilfrid and Wilfrido as a Germanic personal name while discussing possible place-name sources. That supports an exact historical name-family relationship, independently of a parenting page’s erroneous Bruce-name bearer list.
The related Wilfred account explains desire and peace in its Old English form. This describes the family without claiming a particular borrowing route for every Philippine Wilfrido.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Wilfrido in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
WILFRIDOCSV record 16,803 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Wilfrido in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Wilfrido
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Wilfredo♂Desiring peace; Spanish form of Wilfred
- Sigfrido♂Victory and peace
- Wilfred♂Will and peace
- Florido·As a Spanish word: having flowers or flowering
- Winifredo·Winfred-family historical form: friend + peace
- Placido·Latin quiet or calm through Italian Placidus
- Wilberto·Documented Wil- and -berto name formation
- William♂Will and helmet
What rhymes with Wilfrido?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Wilfrido further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Behind the Name — Wilfred (opens in a new tab)
Old English desire and peace elements.
- University of La Laguna repository — Fenómenos de homonimia (opens in a new tab)
Indexed scholarly passage explicitly Germanic personal name Wilfrid or Wilfrido, while qualifying proposed toponym relationships. Those place-name hypotheses are not assigned as the name meaning.