How Many People Are Named Freda?
people named Freda are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 26,404 people in the US has this name
Based on 42,553 babies named Freda in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,025 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of names ending in freda or fred, such as WINIFRED or ALFREDA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Freda in English. Counting Freda and these spellings together, about 22,574 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Freda in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Freda alive today is about 68 years old, and 77% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 79 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Freda first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 1,025 babies. In 2025, 17 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Freda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #161, in 1897. In 2025 it ranked #6,629.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,629 |
| Best rank | #161 (1897) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #218 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Freda alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Freda were born in Kentucky than in any other state: about 823 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Freda was given 5.6 times as often in West Virginia, 2.5 times in Arkansas and 2.5 times in Oklahoma.
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