Alfred
[ˈæl.fərd]Meaning
means "elf counsel", from Old English ælfrǣd, ælf "elf" + rǣd "counsel"
Background Story
Alfred comes from the Old English name Ælfrǣd, and the modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; in Old English the name was pronounced with [v], as its Middle English descendant Alured shows. It is used in Anglo-Saxon, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish and Latin American Spanish, and was borrowed into Danish from English. The name became rare by the end of the Middle Ages and was revived in the 18th century.
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