In 2025, 116 US boys were named Freddie, making it the 1,510th most common boys’ name of the year, up 455 places from #1,965 in 2024. That is 36 more than the 80 boys named Freddie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #132, reached in 1938. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,724, in 1947. For comparison, it was #1,795 in 2015 and #155 in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Freddie, making it the 7,612th most common girls’ name of the year, down 247 places from #7,365 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 15 girls named Freddie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #414, reached in 1937. The most girls given the name in a single year was 271, in 1942. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #612 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Freddie in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 15 babies. In all, 83,643 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 17,758 babies named Freddie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 855 US boys were named Freddie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 116. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,725 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Freddie ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #643 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Freddy (26,968 babies since 1880), Fredy (4,812 babies since 1880) and Fredia (2,307 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fredie, Fredi and Freddi are summarised on this page.