How Many People Are Named Freida?

4,637

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

About 1 in 73,708 people in the US has this name

Based on 10,794 babies named Freida in Social Security records from 1884 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,887

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,191

See the top 100

Peak Year

1947

224 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: FREE-də
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of FRIEDA.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Freida in English. Counting Freida and these spellings together, about 22,574 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

FridaÆlfþryðÆlfthrythFrederikkeRikkeFriedaRicaFredrikaRiikaRiikkaFrédériqueElfriedeFriedeFriederike

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Freida in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Freida alive today is about 64 years old, and 73% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 58 and 78 in 2025.

Under 30 498
10.7%
30 to 59 760
16.4%
60 and over 3,379
72.9%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Freida first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1947, to 224 babies. In 2025, 18 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Freida has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #450, in 1891. In 2025 it ranked #6,399.

Girls
Rank in 2025#6,399
Best rank#450 (1891)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#517 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Freida were born in New York than in any other state: about 331 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Freida was given 3 times as often in Kentucky, 2.8 times in Tennessee and 2.5 times in Indiana.

New York 331
North Carolina 331
Tennessee 256
Alabama 244
Georgia 236
Texas 224
Kentucky 209
South Carolina 100
Indiana 97
Virginia 91
Florida 81
Illinois 77
Louisiana 74
Ohio 68
Oklahoma 66
California 64
Arkansas 57
Missouri 56
Mississippi 52
Michigan 42
Pennsylvania 39
Kansas 9
Arizona 5
New Mexico 4
West Virginia 4
Maryland 3
Massachusetts 2
Iowa 2
Colorado 1

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