Freddy
Freddy was given to 127 boys in 2025, #1,422 among boys’ names; 26,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,200 Americans named Freddy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 23 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Freddy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Freddy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Freddy is “a diminutive of the male given name Frederick.”
From Fred + -y.
/ˈfɹɛdi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Freddy?
#1,422 among boys’ names, 2025
Freddy fell from #993 in 2015 to #1,422 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.07 per 1,000.
441 babies in 1947, the peak
Freddy peaked in 1947, when 441 babies were given it (436 boys, #328 among boys’ names). The 127 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,422 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 144 | #1,332 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,242 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,324 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,386 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,267 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 171 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,153 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 155 | #1,217 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 207 | #993 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,015 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 192 | #1,017 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 227 | #914 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 223 | #906 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 268 | #805 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 289 | #785 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 327 | #712 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 333 | #700 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 361 | #643 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 333 | #651 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 324 | #642 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 344 | #606 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 302 | #643 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 323 | #607 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 315 | #609 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 301 | #607 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 276 | #640 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 293 | #603 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 322 | #569 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 335 | #556 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 315 | #583 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 352 | #546 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 371 | #525 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 356 | #536 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 340 | #541 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 359 | #502 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 288 | #543 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 290 | #528 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 249 | #563 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 258 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 234 | #559 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 232 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 244 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 216 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 215 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 187 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 196 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 210 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 224 | #538 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 194 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 191 | #581 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 208 | #541 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 229 | #523 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 196 | #590 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 219 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 201 | #555 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 195 | #542 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 228 | #496 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 266 | #469 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 267 | #477 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 284 | #470 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 324 | #443 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 297 | #463 | 0.14 |
| 1961 | 333 | #437 | 0.16 |
| 1960 | 383 | #407 | 0.18 |
| 1959 | 356 | #422 | 0.17 |
| 1958 | 358 | #414 | 0.17 |
| 1957 | 422 | #376 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 426 | #356 | 0.20 |
| 1955 | 430 | #348 | 0.21 |
| 1954 | 404 | #358 | 0.20 |
| 1953 | 407 | #342 | 0.21 |
| 1952 | 389 | #348 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 408 | #336 | 0.22 |
| 1950 | 427 | #327 | 0.24 |
| 1949 | 424 | #332 | 0.24 |
| 1948 | 405 | #334 | 0.23 |
| 1947 | 436 | #328 | 0.24 |
| 1946 | 405 | #321 | 0.25 |
| 1945 | 335 | #324 | 0.25 |
| 1944 | 311 | #339 | 0.23 |
| 1943 | 334 | #333 | 0.23 |
| 1942 | 337 | #331 | 0.24 |
| 1941 | 285 | #344 | 0.23 |
| 1940 | 306 | #324 | 0.26 |
| 1939 | 277 | #333 | 0.25 |
| 1938 | 240 | #360 | 0.22 |
| 1937 | 225 | #360 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 188 | #402 | 0.18 |
| 1935 | 187 | #400 | 0.18 |
| 1934 | 174 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 117 | #525 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 125 | #517 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 126 | #513 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 120 | #550 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 104 | #593 | 0.10 |
| 1928 | 80 | #709 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 79 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 67 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 51 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,653 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,769 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,344 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Freddy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Freddy has been given almost only to boys: 172 girls in 115 years of records.
Girls and boys named Freddy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Freddy, and how old are they?
20,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 26,968 Americans ever recorded as Freddy. The median Freddy alive today is 40 years old; half are between 23 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 27,703 people named Freddy (203 women and girls, 27,500 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 977 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,060 |
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 Freddy born?
The states with the most babies named Freddy are California, Texas and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,146 | #972 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 4,005 | #1,368 | 2.0× |
| New York | 2,601 | #1,012 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 961 | #1,692 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 939 | #1,263 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 886 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 705 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Arkansas | 687 | #584 | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 636 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 586 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Freddy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Freddy is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Freddy 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 117,770 babies since 1880, Freddy is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 328 babies (39%), again the second 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 Freddy
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 Freddy and names like it
- Compare Freddy and FreddieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFreddy peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Freddy since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Freddy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Freddy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.