Freeda
Freeda was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,681 among girls’ names; 3,072 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Freeda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Freeda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Freeda is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Freeda?
#15,681 among girls’ names, 2025
Freeda entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,681 in 2025.
99 babies in 1924, the peak
Freeda peaked in 1924, when 99 girls were given it, #745 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,681 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,086 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,145 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,375 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,223 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,645 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,498 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,683 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,832 | 4.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,752 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #12,856 | 3.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,613 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,174 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,453 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,354 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,791 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,759 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,400 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,428 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,575 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,682 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,833 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,364 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,116 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,032 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,839 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,250 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,354 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,647 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,476 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,565 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,685 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,028 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,752 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,484 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,873 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,326 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,544 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,902 | 15.1 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,204 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,204 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,820 | 16.4 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,794 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,674 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,631 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,491 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,261 | 30.1 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,375 | 25.8 |
| 1942 | 49 | #1,129 | 36.3 |
| 1941 | 59 | #958 | 48.8 |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,136 | 35.9 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,187 | 34.7 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,167 | 35.3 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,024 | 45.1 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,011 | 45.2 |
| 1935 | 58 | #906 | 55.3 |
| 1934 | 57 | #910 | 54.6 |
| 1933 | 59 | #883 | 58.5 |
| 1932 | 55 | #959 | 51.5 |
| 1931 | 75 | #780 | 70.4 |
| 1930 | 82 | #777 | 72.8 |
| 1929 | 79 | #791 | 70.8 |
| 1928 | 73 | #848 | 63.3 |
| 1927 | 86 | #783 | 72.1 |
| 1926 | 96 | #740 | 81.0 |
| 1925 | 91 | #776 | 74.8 |
| 1924 | 99 | #745 | 79.3 |
| 1923 | 96 | #749 | 79.6 |
| 1922 | 96 | #745 | 79.9 |
| 1921 | 80 | #826 | 64.9 |
| 1920 | 88 | #774 | 73.4 |
| 1919 | 90 | #741 | 79.6 |
| 1918 | 69 | #864 | 59.6 |
| 1917 | 67 | #836 | 62.0 |
| 1916 | 74 | #792 | 70.9 |
| 1915 | 60 | #841 | 61.0 |
| 1914 | 49 | #844 | 64.3 |
| 1913 | 47 | #767 | 75.3 |
| 1912 | 45 | #750 | 80.6 |
| 1911 | 20 | #993 | 47.8 |
| 1910 | 22 | #925 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 23 | #853 | 66.2 |
| 1908 | 28 | #734 | 83.8 |
| 1907 | 26 | #743 | 81.6 |
| 1906 | 20 | #824 | 67.7 |
| 1905 | 24 | #747 | 82.3 |
| 1904 | 22 | #762 | 79.9 |
| 1903 | 16 | #873 | 61.1 |
| 1902 | 24 | #696 | 90.9 |
| 1901 | 18 | #780 | 75.2 |
| 1900 | 16 | #950 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 19 | #737 | 81.5 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,304 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 12 | #944 | 51.2 |
| 1896 | 16 | #820 | 67.3 |
| 1895 | 12 | #954 | 51.4 |
| 1894 | 13 | #871 | 58.3 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,221 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 11 | #927 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,396 | 27.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Freeda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Freeda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Freeda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Freeda, and how old are they?
An estimated 671 Americans named Freeda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 63 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 961 people named Freeda (955 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 911 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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 Freeda born?
The states with the most babies named Freeda are West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia and Arkansas and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 225 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Arkansas | 214 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Kentucky | 171 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Missouri | 153 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Oklahoma | 134 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Tennessee | 91 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 82 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 75 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Freeda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Freeda is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 4.7 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 Freeda 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 60,410 babies since 1880, Freeda is the third most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 51 babies (9.8%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Freeda
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 Freeda and names like it
- Compare Freeda and FredaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFreeda peaked in 1924.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Freeda since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Freeda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Freeda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.