Elfriede

Elfriede is a female first name; He is the German form of English given name Elfreda.

Origin

Elfreda is composed of the Old English words AELF (Elf, Nature Spirit) and þryð together ( power, strength ).

Dissemination

In the late 19th century Elfriede was a common first name with increasing popularity in Germany. In the 1910s and early 1920s, the name was often among the ten most common girl name of the vintage. Then its popularity gradually declined. Since the late fifties Elfriede children are barely mentioned.

Name-day

  • March 5
  • May 20 (according to Austrian calendar and name tags Book)

Variants

  • Elfrida, Elfrida
  • Frida, Frieda, peace, Fridel, Friedel
  • Elfi, Elfie

Famous names winners

  • Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929), Swedish organist and composer
  • Elfriede Brüning (pseudonym: Elke Klent; * 1910), German writer
  • Elfriede Cohnen (1901-1979), German lawyer and doctor
  • Elfriede Czurda (* 1946), Austrian art historian and writer
  • Elfriede Datzig (also: Datzik; 1922-1946 ), Austrian actress
  • Elfriede Eder ( b. 1970 ), former Austrian alpine skier
  • Elfriede splitter ( * 1921 ), German politician (SPD )
  • Elfriede Florin (1912-2006), German actress
  • Elfriede Gerstl (1932-2009), Austrian writer
  • Elfriede Haslehner -Götz ( born 1933), Austrian writer
  • Elfriede Hengstenberg (1892-1992), German educator
  • Elfrida Jagersberger (* 1919), Austrian Franciscan missionary sister in Colombia
  • Elfriede Jelinek ( b. 1946 ), Austrian writer
  • Elfriede Kuzmany (1915-2006), Austrian actress
  • Elfriede Lohse- Wachtler (1899-1940), painter of the Avant-Garde Dresden
  • Elfriede Meurer (* 1958), Rhineland-Palatinate politician (CDU )
  • Elfriede Moser -Rath (1926-1993), Austrian folklorist and narrative researcher
  • Elfriede Ott ( b. 1925 ), Austrian actress, singer and director
  • Elfriede Paul (1900-1981), German physician, health politician and resistance fighter
  • Elfriede Rinkel (* 1922), former warden of a German concentration camp
  • Elfriede Ryneck ( born Staegemann; 1872-1951 ), German politician (SPD )
  • Elfriede Scholz (1903-1943; born Elfriede Remark ), Nazi victims
  • Elfriede shots leather (* 1951), Austrian actress
  • Elfriede soup (1908-1996), German brush maker and Soester original
  • Elfrida Trötschel (1913-1958), German soprano, opera and lieder singer
  • Elfriede Weiler (1906-1984), German politician (SPD )
  • Friede Springer ( born 1942 ), German publisher Axel Springer's widow and
  • Friedel Beckmann (1901-1983), German opera singer with the voice Mezzo soprano
  • Fridel Dethleffs - Edelmann (1899-1982), German portrait, flower and landscape painter
  • Fridel Kohne (1890 - ), German writer and screenwriter
  • Elfie Donnelly ( born 1950 ), Austrian author of numerous children's books, plays and screenplays
  • Elfi Eschke (* 1961), German actress
  • Elfi Hartenstein (* 1946), German writer
  • Elfi Marten -Brockmann, former German journalist and television presenter in the ARD
  • Elfie Mayerhofer (1917/1923-1992), Austrian actress and singer
  • Elfi Mikesch (actually Elfriede Mikesch; * 1940 ), Austrian photographer, cinematographer and film director
  • Elfie Pertramer (actually Elfriede Bernreuther; 1924-2011 ), German stage and film actress
  • Elfie Semotan (* 1941), Austrian photographer
  • Elfie Stejskal ( born 1948 ), adventurer and author
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