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Alfred's nice, and Alfie is cute.

Alfred is fantastic. And Alfredo!! Alfie is very cute and whimsical in my neck of the woods.

This message was edited 4/13/2024, 6:50 AM

I love Alfred! Alfie's very cute.

Alfred is admittedly mature and easy to go into society with, but I don't like the sound. I dislike the sound of Alfie too, but I understand that it makes a stuck-up sounding name seem cuter and more approachable.

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It is painfully popular in the UK, I saw the stats. I actually named two characters in the same story Alfie on purpose to reflect it.

I'm not from UK, but see these 2 names as very British and in the UK there are a number of nn used as full names Alfie, Archie, Sadie, Charlie and lots with ie endings Elsie, Bonnie, Maisie etc

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I don't like the name Alfred sounds too old fashioned and Alfie too cutesy

Alfred is forever ‘elderly butler’ to me, and Alfie is cartoonish

I was looking for a distant relative on a site that provides many though not all deceased people, grouped by surname and given names. The ln I was looking for (no luck) was Thompson. In the course of my search, I found LANIE LOVIE ALFRED THOMPSON, born in the late 1940s. I've never met one in South Africa, but this poor man wasn't the only Alfred by a long shot. Which makes sense; British names were pretty standard among English-speaking South Africans until we finally got TV in the mid-1970s, when there was an American influence for the first time.

I'm from the US, but I still wanted to comment that I LOVE this name. I think that Alfred is such a handsome sounding name; Alfie is a cute nickname (though, I also like the nickname option "Fred"). Definitely a favorite name of mine.