How Many People Are Named Frieda?

4,993

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

About 1 in 68,452 people in the US has this name

Based on 25,506 babies named Frieda in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,725

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,096

See the top 100

Peak Year

1916

838 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: German, English
Pronunciation: FREE-da (German), FREE-də (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of FRIDA.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

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

Related & Similar Names

FridaÆlfþryðÆlfthrythFrederikkeRikkeFreidaRicaFredrikaRiikaRiikkaFrédériqueFriedeFritziRike

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Frieda alive today is about 60 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 45 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 887
17.8%
30 to 59 860
17.2%
60 and over 3,247
65%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Frieda first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1916, to 838 babies. In 2025, 36 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Frieda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #141, in 1896. In 2025 it ranked #4,011.

Girls
Rank in 2025#4,011
Best rank#141 (1896)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#216 in the 1910s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Frieda were born in New York than in any other state: about 895 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Frieda was given 3.7 times as often in North Dakota, 2.6 times in New York and 2 times in South Dakota.

New York 895
California 200
Texas 183
Illinois 148
Ohio 138
Kentucky 127
Tennessee 121
North Carolina 110
Indiana 105
Pennsylvania 99
Missouri 93
Michigan 86
New Jersey 83
Virginia 54
Alabama 53
Oklahoma 46
Georgia 42
Florida 27
Wisconsin 24
Arkansas 19
New Mexico 19
South Carolina 16
Louisiana 12
West Virginia 10
Kansas 9
Colorado 9
Iowa 8
Massachusetts 7
Arizona 3
Maryland 3
Mississippi 3
North Dakota 3
Nebraska 3
Connecticut 1
Minnesota 1
Washington 1
South Dakota 1

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