Fredda
Fredda was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 1,477 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fredda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fredda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,698, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1948, the peak
Fredda peaked in 1948, when 61 girls were given it, #1,145 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #10,698 | 3.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,698 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,137 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,129 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,734 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,162 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,814 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,072 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,134 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,182 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 11 | #4,028 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,756 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,902 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,079 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,664 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,129 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,684 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,142 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,131 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,411 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,574 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,566 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,892 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 46 | #1,431 | 24.8 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,420 | 24.4 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,635 | 19.3 |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,291 | 29.2 |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,145 | 35.9 |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,257 | 29.3 |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,121 | 36.3 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,298 | 29.1 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,158 | 34.7 |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,182 | 33.7 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,254 | 30.4 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,211 | 32.3 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,653 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,407 | 25.5 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,351 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,396 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,455 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,692 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,118 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,860 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,980 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,648 | 20.7 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,968 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,231 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,123 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,471 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,554 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,226 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,347 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,995 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,807 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,589 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,206 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,945 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,908 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,871 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,550 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,783 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,848 | 18.4 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,967 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,469 | 12.5 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,240 | 15.1 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,593 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,908 | 18.8 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,437 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,480 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,233 | 34.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fredda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fredda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fredda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fredda, and how old are they?
An estimated 700 Americans named Fredda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 68 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 877 people named Fredda (874 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fredda born?
The states with the most babies named Fredda are New York, Texas and Tennessee, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 175 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Fredda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fredda is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fredda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Fredda?
Fredda is a less common spelling of Freda: SSA has recorded 1,477 Fredda and 42,553 Freda since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,509 babies since 1880, Fredda is the fifth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 51 babies recorded by SSA was a Fredda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fredda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fredda and names like it
- Compare Fredda and FredaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFredda peaked in 1948.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fredda since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Fredda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Fredda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.