Meaning not yet researched.
Freeman: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #286 in 1891.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #286 in 1891; #4,072 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Freeman in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,072 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1891, at #286.
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Freeman: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #286 in 1891 · most boys in one year: 229 (1918).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Freeman, making it the 4,072nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 439 places from #3,633 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 31 boys named Freeman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #286, reached in 1891. The most boys given the name in a single year was 229, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,917 in 2015 and #654 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Freeman in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 26 babies with the name. In all, 10,996 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,903 babies named Freeman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 293 US boys were named Freeman; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Freemon, Freman and Fremon are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Freemon (285), Freman (81), Fremon (78).
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.
No nicknames listed for Freeman in the open dataset we use.
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 | — | — | 26 | #4,072 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,633 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,825 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,923 |
| 2021 | — | — | 31 | #3,603 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,183 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,832 |
| 2018 | — | — | 36 | #3,190 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,814 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,466 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,917 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,170 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,147 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,560 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,459 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,571 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,126 |
| 2008 | — | — | 33 | #3,367 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,152 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,947 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,111 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,804 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,220 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,656 |
| 2001 | — | — | 35 | #2,707 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,347 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,077 |
| 1998 | — | — | 25 | #3,134 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,107 |
| 1996 | — | — | 43 | #2,028 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,115 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,941 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,802 |
| 1992 | — | — | 58 | #1,532 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #1,993 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,641 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,004 |
| 1988 | — | — | 45 | #1,600 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,692 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,601 |
| 1985 | — | — | 57 | #1,270 |
| 1984 | — | — | 45 | #1,429 |
| 1983 | — | — | 56 | #1,224 |
| 1982 | — | — | 48 | #1,370 |
| 1981 | — | — | 58 | #1,201 |
| 1980 | — | — | 53 | #1,276 |
| 1979 | — | — | 40 | #1,497 |
| 1978 | — | — | 46 | #1,356 |
| 1977 | — | — | 50 | #1,259 |
| 1976 | — | — | 46 | #1,306 |
| 1975 | — | — | 61 | #1,072 |
| 1974 | — | — | 51 | #1,156 |
| 1973 | — | — | 57 | #1,079 |
| 1972 | — | — | 58 | #1,064 |
| 1971 | — | — | 69 | #981 |
| 1970 | — | — | 67 | #995 |
| 1969 | — | — | 57 | #1,020 |
| 1968 | — | — | 53 | #1,021 |
| 1967 | — | — | 64 | #902 |
| 1966 | — | — | 58 | #955 |
| 1965 | — | — | 76 | #845 |
| 1964 | — | — | 72 | #896 |
| 1963 | — | — | 77 | #859 |
| 1962 | — | — | 73 | #893 |
| 1961 | — | — | 85 | #834 |
| 1960 | — | — | 105 | #753 |
| 1959 | — | — | 96 | #782 |
| 1958 | — | — | 78 | #858 |
| 1957 | — | — | 111 | #710 |
| 1956 | — | — | 130 | #669 |
| 1955 | — | — | 108 | #705 |
| 1954 | — | — | 125 | #652 |
| 1953 | — | — | 114 | #666 |
| 1952 | — | — | 104 | #682 |
| 1951 | — | — | 109 | #669 |
| 1950 | — | — | 114 | #654 |
| 1949 | — | — | 119 | #625 |
| 1948 | — | — | 129 | #589 |
| 1947 | — | — | 128 | #601 |
| 1946 | — | — | 114 | #607 |
| 1945 | — | — | 114 | #564 |
| 1944 | — | — | 130 | #533 |
| 1943 | — | — | 159 | #491 |
| 1942 | — | — | 135 | #526 |
| 1941 | — | — | 126 | #528 |
| 1940 | — | — | 121 | #533 |
| 1939 | — | — | 119 | #525 |
| 1938 | — | — | 128 | #513 |
| 1937 | — | — | 147 | #458 |
| 1936 | — | — | 134 | #488 |
| 1935 | — | — | 112 | #545 |
| 1934 | — | — | 132 | #503 |
| 1933 | — | — | 149 | #452 |
| 1932 | — | — | 153 | #467 |
| 1931 | — | — | 148 | #465 |
| 1930 | — | — | 164 | #463 |
| 1929 | — | — | 180 | #441 |
| 1928 | — | — | 173 | #461 |
| 1927 | — | — | 169 | #466 |
| 1926 | — | — | 204 | #423 |
| 1925 | — | — | 190 | #434 |
| 1924 | — | — | 195 | #437 |
| 1923 | — | — | 199 | #430 |
| 1922 | — | — | 184 | #455 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,409 | 203 | #426 |
| 1920 | — | — | 201 | #419 |
| 1919 | — | — | 199 | #414 |
| 1918 | — | — | 229 | #393 |
| 1917 | — | — | 171 | #433 |
| 1916 | — | — | 173 | #430 |
| 1915 | — | — | 171 | #414 |
| 1914 | — | — | 135 | #409 |
| 1913 | — | — | 106 | #420 |
| 1912 | — | — | 103 | #380 |
| 1911 | — | — | 65 | #339 |
| 1910 | — | — | 52 | #357 |
| 1909 | — | — | 52 | #319 |
| 1908 | — | — | 45 | #338 |
| 1907 | — | — | 41 | #336 |
| 1906 | — | — | 42 | #320 |
| 1905 | — | — | 47 | #290 |
| 1904 | — | — | 40 | #315 |
| 1903 | — | — | 26 | #386 |
| 1902 | — | — | 40 | #304 |
| 1901 | — | — | 20 | #428 |
| 1900 | — | — | 44 | #320 |
| 1899 | — | — | 22 | #396 |
| 1898 | — | — | 38 | #308 |
| 1897 | — | — | 30 | #343 |
| 1896 | — | — | 25 | #391 |
| 1895 | — | — | 27 | #363 |
| 1894 | — | — | 27 | #353 |
| 1893 | — | — | 24 | #370 |
| 1892 | — | — | 19 | #451 |
| 1891 | — | — | 33 | #286 |
| 1890 | — | — | 28 | #330 |
| 1889 | — | — | 35 | #286 |
| 1888 | — | — | 34 | #308 |
| 1887 | — | — | 26 | #327 |
| 1886 | — | — | 21 | #386 |
| 1885 | — | — | 27 | #329 |
| 1884 | — | — | 24 | #364 |
| 1883 | — | — | 20 | #386 |
| 1882 | — | — | 29 | #320 |
| 1881 | — | — | 25 | #326 |
| 1880 | — | — | 26 | #337 |
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).