How Many People Are Named Freddie?

43,161

people named Freddie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 7,918 people in the US has this name

Based on 83,643 babies named Freddie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,015

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#445

See the top 100

Peak Year

1947

1,958 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: FRED-ee
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Diminutive of FREDERICK or FREDA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Freddie in English. Counting Freddie and these spellings together, about 63,585 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

FriduricBedřichFrederikFredFreekFritsRikFreddyPriidikPriitFredrikVeetiFrédéricFeddeAlfreda

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
9.0%
Male
91.0%

Of the babies given the name Freddie, 9% were girls and 91% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Freddie fell from 34.1% in the 1880s to 12.4% in the 2020s. It was highest in the 1890s, at 48.1%.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Freddie alive today is about 61 years old, and 61% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 75 in 2025.

Under 30 3,723
8.6%
30 to 59 12,952
30%
60 and over 26,486
61.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Freddie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1947, to 1,958 babies. In 2025, 130 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Freddie has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #132, in 1938. In 2025 it ranked #1,510. Among girls, its best rank was #414, in 1937.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025#1,510#7,610
Best rank#132 (1938)#414 (1937)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#149 in the 1940s#491 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Freddie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Freddie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,404 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Freddie was given 3.8 times as often in Arkansas, 3.7 times in Mississippi and 3.4 times in Georgia.

Texas 4,404
Georgia 3,331
California 3,117
Florida 2,733
Louisiana 2,363
Mississippi 2,154
Alabama 1,840
South Carolina 1,808
Arkansas 1,686
New York 1,664
Tennessee 1,650
North Carolina 1,566
Illinois 1,394
Kentucky 1,176
Virginia 1,044
Ohio 896
Missouri 850
Oklahoma 729
Michigan 706
West Virginia 627
Arizona 554
New Mexico 508
New Jersey 462
Indiana 457
Pennsylvania 411
Maryland 261
Colorado 195
Kansas 170
District of Columbia 146
Connecticut 61
Iowa 60
Washington 42
Wisconsin 36
Massachusetts 29
Utah 27
Nebraska 21
Hawaii 5
Oregon 5
Alaska 4
Idaho 3
Minnesota 2
South Dakota 2
Montana 2
Maine 2

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