Eadred (given name)

Eadred or Edred is an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name, from ' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and ' "counsel". Notable people with the name include:

• Eadred (923–955), king of England
• Eadred (bishop) (died 1042), Bishop of Durham
• Eadred Lulisc (fl. late 9th century), abbot of Carlisle
• Eadred Ætheling (died 1012), a son of King Æthelred the Unready
• Stephen Edred Flowers (born 1953), American occultist
• Edred John Henry Corner (1906–1996), English botanist and mycologist
• Edred Utomi (born 1991), Nigerian-American stage actor

See also

• Ealdred
• Adderstone
• Eldridge (disambiguation)
• Osred