Find out how popular the last name Alfredo is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Alfredo.

Alfredo, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Alfredo surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Alfredo in America

Alfredo is the 42640th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Alfredo surname appeared 508 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Alfredo.

We can also compare 2010 data for Alfredo to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Alfredo

The surname ALFREDO is of Italian origin, derived from the Old Italian personal name Alfredo, which itself is a compound of the Germanic elements alf (elf) and rad (counsel). It first emerged in the medieval period, around the 11th or 12th century, in various regions of central and northern Italy.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in a document from the Republic of Venice, dated 1246, which mentions a certain Alfredo Contarini, a nobleman from a prominent Venetian family. Another early reference is in a manuscript from Florence, circa 1310, listing an Alfredo di Bartolomeo among the city's guild members.

In the 14th century, the name appears in records from the town of Gubbio, in Umbria, where an Alfredo Gabrielli is mentioned as a local landowner in 1372. Around the same time, a friar named Alfredo da Montefalco, born in the nearby town of Montefalco in 1362, gained some renown for his religious writings.

During the Renaissance period, the name was borne by several notable figures, including the Florentine artist Alfredo del Ghiberti (1450-1512), a sculptor and metalworker who assisted Lorenzo Ghiberti in creating the famous bronze doors of the Baptistery in Florence. Another Alfredo, Alfredo Castiglioni (1478-1538), was a renowned humanist scholar and diplomat from Mantua.

In the 17th century, the name Alfredo Pallavicino (1615-1688) belonged to an Italian cardinal and historian who served as the papal nuncio to various European courts. A few decades later, Alfredo Campana (1669-1728) was a celebrated Baroque architect from Rome, known for his work on several churches and palaces in the city.

One of the most famous bearers of the surname was the 19th-century composer and musician Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893), whose operas such as "La Wally" and "Loreley" brought him widespread acclaim across Europe during his lifetime.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Alfredo

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Alfredo.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Alfredo was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Alfredo has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Alfredo was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

If you have a correction or suggestion to improve the history of Alfredo, please contact us.

Reference this page

We spend a lot of resources downloading, cleaning, merging, and formatting the data that is shown on the site.

If you found the data or information on this page useful in your research, please use the tool below to properly cite or reference Name Census as the source. We appreciate your support!