Meaning not yet researched.
Freda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 1897.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #161 in 1897; #6,630 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Freda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,630 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1897, at #161.
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Freda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #161 in 1897 · most girls in one year: 1,025 (1918).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Freda, making it the 6,630th most common girls’ name of the year, down 609 places from #6,021 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 girls named Freda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #161, reached in 1897. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,025, in 1918. For comparison, it was #9,138 in 2015 and #388 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Freda in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 34 babies. In all, 42,553 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 8,632 babies named Freda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US girls were named Freda; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Frieda (25,506 babies since 1880), Freida (10,794 babies since 1880), Frida (8,491 babies since 1880) and Freeda (3,072 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fredda, Fryda and Freada are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Frieda.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fredda (1,477), Fryda (137), Freada (130), Friday (30), Freyda (30), Fridda (5), Fridah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Freda is listed as a nickname for Alfreda, Fredericka.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,630 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,041 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,708 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,184 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,429 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,519 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,801 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,371 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,138 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,753 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,157 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,694 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,353 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,401 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,793 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,522 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,102 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,609 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,192 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,229 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,250 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,724 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,653 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,608 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,126 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1981 | 91 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1978 | 111 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1976 | 109 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1975 | 132 | #954 | — | — |
| 1974 | 128 | #965 | — | — |
| 1973 | 161 | #816 | — | — |
| 1972 | 169 | #800 | — | — |
| 1971 | 172 | #809 | — | — |
| 1970 | 145 | #906 | — | — |
| 1969 | 137 | #906 | — | — |
| 1968 | 150 | #832 | — | — |
| 1967 | 161 | #782 | — | — |
| 1966 | 193 | #706 | — | — |
| 1965 | 263 | #589 | — | — |
| 1964 | 276 | #600 | — | — |
| 1963 | 317 | #544 | — | — |
| 1962 | 342 | #528 | — | — |
| 1961 | 444 | #465 | — | — |
| 1960 | 449 | #462 | — | — |
| 1959 | 458 | #450 | — | — |
| 1958 | 461 | #443 | — | — |
| 1957 | 493 | #421 | — | — |
| 1956 | 527 | #391 | — | — |
| 1955 | 507 | #391 | — | — |
| 1954 | 476 | #398 | — | — |
| 1953 | 521 | #372 | — | — |
| 1952 | 430 | #402 | — | — |
| 1951 | 466 | #379 | — | — |
| 1950 | 437 | #388 | — | — |
| 1949 | 413 | #389 | — | — |
| 1948 | 469 | #363 | — | — |
| 1947 | 501 | #360 | — | — |
| 1946 | 471 | #349 | — | — |
| 1945 | 438 | #330 | — | — |
| 1944 | 467 | #313 | — | — |
| 1943 | 552 | #296 | — | — |
| 1942 | 503 | #307 | 6 | #3,340 |
| 1941 | 491 | #292 | 5 | #3,688 |
| 1940 | 487 | #284 | — | — |
| 1939 | 538 | #266 | — | — |
| 1938 | 544 | #270 | — | — |
| 1937 | 528 | #272 | — | — |
| 1936 | 495 | #273 | — | — |
| 1935 | 623 | #251 | 5 | #3,852 |
| 1934 | 651 | #243 | — | — |
| 1933 | 588 | #251 | — | — |
| 1932 | 603 | #255 | — | — |
| 1931 | 640 | #237 | — | — |
| 1930 | 610 | #253 | — | — |
| 1929 | 696 | #227 | — | — |
| 1928 | 748 | #229 | — | — |
| 1927 | 819 | #222 | — | — |
| 1926 | 830 | #221 | — | — |
| 1925 | 889 | #217 | — | — |
| 1924 | 914 | #213 | — | — |
| 1923 | 868 | #219 | — | — |
| 1922 | 924 | #211 | — | — |
| 1921 | 970 | #208 | — | — |
| 1920 | 974 | #201 | — | — |
| 1919 | 900 | #206 | 5 | #4,401 |
| 1918 | 1,025 | #192 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,010 | #188 | — | — |
| 1916 | 948 | #188 | — | — |
| 1915 | 944 | #176 | — | — |
| 1914 | 689 | #194 | — | — |
| 1913 | 613 | #185 | — | — |
| 1912 | 566 | #173 | — | — |
| 1911 | 413 | #177 | — | — |
| 1910 | 345 | #193 | — | — |
| 1909 | 321 | #186 | 5 | #1,539 |
| 1908 | 349 | #171 | — | — |
| 1907 | 306 | #182 | — | — |
| 1906 | 287 | #177 | — | — |
| 1905 | 310 | #170 | — | — |
| 1904 | 256 | #187 | — | — |
| 1903 | 280 | #174 | — | — |
| 1902 | 247 | #185 | — | — |
| 1901 | 255 | #173 | — | — |
| 1900 | 321 | #170 | — | — |
| 1899 | 266 | #167 | — | — |
| 1898 | 273 | #172 | — | — |
| 1897 | 279 | #161 | — | — |
| 1896 | 246 | #175 | — | — |
| 1895 | 250 | #167 | — | — |
| 1894 | 227 | #178 | — | — |
| 1893 | 231 | #167 | — | — |
| 1892 | 229 | #165 | — | — |
| 1891 | 161 | #186 | — | — |
| 1890 | 127 | #215 | — | — |
| 1889 | 112 | #219 | — | — |
| 1888 | 95 | #237 | — | — |
| 1887 | 80 | #238 | — | — |
| 1886 | 66 | #255 | — | — |
| 1885 | 67 | #248 | — | — |
| 1884 | 61 | #248 | — | — |
| 1883 | 33 | #307 | — | — |
| 1882 | 42 | #269 | — | — |
| 1881 | 34 | #276 | — | — |
| 1880 | 34 | #265 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).