Freddie
Freddie is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 116 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,610 among girls’ names and #1,510 among boys’, #2,961 among all names counting both); 83,643 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 42,100 Americans named Freddie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 50 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Freddie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Freddie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Freddie is “a diminutive of the male given name Frederick.”
From Fred + -ie.
/ˈfɹɛdi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Freddie?
#1,510 among boys’ names, 2025
Freddie rose from #1,795 in 2015 to #1,510 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 43.8 to 67.9 per million.
1,958 babies in 1947, the peak
Freddie peaked in 1947, when 1,958 babies were given it (1,724 boys, #153 among boys’ names). The 130 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,610 | 116 | #1,510 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,361 | 80 | #1,965 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,841 | 76 | #2,005 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,704 | 77 | #1,986 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,449 | 65 | #2,179 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,570 | 88 | #1,752 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 102 | #1,615 | |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,774 | 89 | #1,737 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 77 | #1,886 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,946 | 85 | #1,794 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 84 | #1,795 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 82 | #1,820 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 117 | #1,421 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 110 | #1,469 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 98 | #1,581 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 105 | #1,539 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 133 | #1,310 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,434 | 141 | #1,235 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 116 | #1,405 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 140 | #1,198 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 138 | #1,157 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 129 | #1,191 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 164 | #976 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,296 | 161 | #976 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,163 | 169 | #920 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 163 | #932 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,231 | 177 | #854 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,974 | 178 | #829 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 201 | #746 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,337 | 197 | #754 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,889 | 203 | #754 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 220 | #702 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,053 | 262 | #638 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,976 | 281 | #614 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,575 | 282 | #604 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,567 | 310 | #574 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,006 | 302 | #554 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,574 | 319 | #515 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,457 | 330 | #487 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,313 | 369 | #453 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,209 | 355 | #453 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,982 | 379 | #428 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,562 | 409 | #403 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,306 | 416 | #407 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,463 | 473 | #369 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,059 | 490 | #361 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,353 | 469 | #369 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,133 | 475 | #355 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,206 | 517 | #347 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,852 | 504 | #342 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,949 | 548 | #325 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,538 | 525 | #334 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,213 | 555 | #317 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,208 | 593 | #308 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,001 | 586 | #320 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,472 | 656 | #305 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,272 | 663 | #294 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,731 | 721 | #273 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,094 | 767 | #261 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,717 | 800 | #256 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,895 | 845 | #255 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,786 | 904 | #255 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,794 | 915 | #250 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,479 | 1,038 | #240 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,557 | 1,144 | #235 |
| 1960 | 72 | #1,294 | 1,219 | #227 |
| 1959 | 87 | #1,146 | 1,246 | #220 |
| 1958 | 115 | #964 | 1,266 | #211 |
| 1957 | 101 | #1,041 | 1,340 | #202 |
| 1956 | 136 | #853 | 1,423 | #196 |
| 1955 | 143 | #808 | 1,426 | #186 |
| 1954 | 136 | #806 | 1,491 | #179 |
| 1953 | 154 | #732 | 1,548 | #171 |
| 1952 | 164 | #700 | 1,490 | #177 |
| 1951 | 183 | #645 | 1,560 | #165 |
| 1950 | 188 | #611 | 1,615 | #155 |
| 1949 | 193 | #596 | 1,673 | #152 |
| 1948 | 228 | #549 | 1,708 | #152 |
| 1947 | 234 | #556 | 1,724 | #153 |
| 1946 | 217 | #537 | 1,591 | #151 |
| 1945 | 243 | #456 | 1,427 | #145 |
| 1944 | 268 | #439 | 1,515 | #138 |
| 1943 | 256 | #463 | 1,495 | #143 |
| 1942 | 271 | #446 | 1,514 | #140 |
| 1941 | 240 | #440 | 1,412 | #138 |
| 1940 | 231 | #449 | 1,318 | #138 |
| 1939 | 213 | #457 | 1,237 | #138 |
| 1938 | 223 | #450 | 1,309 | #132 |
| 1937 | 245 | #414 | 1,165 | #134 |
| 1936 | 225 | #431 | 1,195 | #134 |
| 1935 | 238 | #421 | 1,082 | #145 |
| 1934 | 225 | #434 | 988 | #152 |
| 1933 | 217 | #438 | 925 | #156 |
| 1932 | 205 | #457 | 909 | #166 |
| 1931 | 206 | #448 | 805 | #171 |
| 1930 | 193 | #483 | 841 | #171 |
| 1929 | 230 | #433 | 822 | #172 |
| 1928 | 217 | #468 | 744 | #191 |
| 1927 | 241 | #445 | 713 | #198 |
| 1926 | 196 | #498 | 708 | #198 |
| 1925 | 214 | #475 | 647 | #213 |
| 1924 | 206 | #486 | 592 | #227 |
| 1923 | 190 | #504 | 570 | #233 |
| 1922 | 182 | #519 | 496 | #253 |
| 1921 | 170 | #545 | 497 | #251 |
| 1920 | 155 | #577 | 452 | #258 |
| 1919 | 162 | #540 | 437 | #254 |
| 1918 | 138 | #606 | 371 | #277 |
| 1917 | 138 | #574 | 354 | #271 |
| 1916 | 126 | #600 | 340 | #276 |
| 1915 | 105 | #645 | 283 | #304 |
| 1914 | 85 | #628 | 231 | #298 |
| 1913 | 64 | #647 | 167 | #309 |
| 1912 | 57 | #664 | 146 | #298 |
| 1911 | 32 | #768 | 100 | #257 |
| 1910 | 51 | #579 | 95 | #246 |
| 1909 | 42 | #596 | 76 | #255 |
| 1908 | 37 | #631 | 72 | #248 |
| 1907 | 28 | #715 | 74 | #240 |
| 1906 | 26 | #721 | 51 | #280 |
| 1905 | 28 | #672 | 46 | #295 |
| 1904 | 31 | #619 | 39 | #320 |
| 1903 | 21 | #746 | 45 | #279 |
| 1902 | 19 | #803 | 38 | #313 |
| 1901 | 25 | #636 | 29 | #342 |
| 1900 | 35 | #594 | 63 | #256 |
| 1899 | 21 | #689 | 25 | #368 |
| 1898 | 21 | #728 | 20 | #460 |
| 1897 | 16 | #805 | 30 | #342 |
| 1896 | 30 | #559 | 19 | #471 |
| 1895 | 16 | #797 | 24 | #392 |
| 1894 | 26 | #578 | 28 | #342 |
| 1893 | 12 | #876 | 18 | #438 |
| 1892 | 20 | #649 | 8 | #820 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,045 | 13 | #504 |
| 1890 | 10 | #892 | 9 | #690 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,353 | 12 | #562 |
| 1888 | 8 | #984 | 7 | #859 |
| 1887 | 11 | #712 | 7 | #776 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,020 | 14 | #499 |
| 1885 | under 5 | 11 | #586 | |
| 1884 | 7 | #880 | 8 | #718 |
| 1883 | under 5 | 6 | #831 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 9 | #620 | |
| 1880 | 6 | #783 | 9 | #653 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Freddie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 83,643 Americans recorded as Freddie, 12% are girls and 88% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Freddie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Freddie, and how old are they?
42,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 50% of the 83,643 Americans ever recorded as Freddie. The median Freddie alive today is 66 years old; half are between 50 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 35,364 people named Freddie (3,345 women and girls, 32,019 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 48,953 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5,890 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,830 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,980 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Freddie born?
The states with the most babies named Freddie are Texas, Georgia and Louisiana, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8,870 | #1,590 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 6,895 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Louisiana | 5,184 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Florida | 4,650 | #1,691 | 2.5× |
| Mississippi | 4,602 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| California | 4,182 | #917 | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 4,012 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 3,967 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Arkansas | 3,880 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Tennessee | 3,532 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Freddie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Freddie is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 3.3 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 boys’ 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 Freddie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 113,191 babies since 1880, Freddie is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 257 babies (51%), again the most given.
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 Freddie
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 Freddie and names like it
- Compare Freddie and FreddyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFreddie peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Freddie since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Freddie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Freddie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.