Freida
Freida was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,399 among girls’ names; 10,794 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,520 Americans named Freida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 58 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Freida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Freida?
#6,399 among girls’ names, 2025
Freida fell from #6,308 in 2015 to #6,399 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 11.2 per million.
224 babies in 1947, the peak
Freida peaked in 1947, when 224 girls were given it, #570 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,362 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,373 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,810 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,248 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,533 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,491 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,661 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,906 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,679 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (142)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,308 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,805 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,714 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,765 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,919 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,003 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,799 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,206 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,227 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,888 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,073 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,530 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,668 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,546 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,365 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,026 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,944 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,154 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,594 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,687 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,065 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,754 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,688 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,345 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,069 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,406 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,019 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,794 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,700 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,352 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,371 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,283 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,665 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,270 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,671 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,408 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,751 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,288 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,312 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,737 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,813 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,440 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 61 | #1,520 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 57 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,586 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 71 | #1,335 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,174 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 97 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 116 | #1,006 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,033 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 162 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 171 | #762 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 182 | #739 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 190 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 169 | #728 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 189 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 173 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 194 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 214 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1950 | 179 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 197 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1948 | 212 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 224 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1946 | 175 | #597 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 149 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 148 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 154 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 157 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 141 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1940 | 141 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1939 | 177 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1938 | 173 | #508 | 0.16 |
| 1937 | 162 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 144 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 163 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1934 | 175 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1933 | 147 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1932 | 132 | #569 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 136 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 164 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1929 | 140 | #580 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 147 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1927 | 205 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 172 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1925 | 172 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 186 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1923 | 193 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1922 | 214 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1921 | 211 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1920 | 199 | #487 | 0.17 |
| 1919 | 202 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1918 | 198 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 187 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1916 | 167 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 138 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 122 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1913 | 111 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 82 | #541 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 52 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 57 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1909 | 45 | #576 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 38 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 48 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1906 | 39 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 40 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 40 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1903 | 29 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 34 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 25 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 28 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 37 | #484 | 0.16 |
| 1898 | 26 | #641 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 28 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1896 | 28 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 26 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1894 | 21 | #649 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 24 | #583 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 21 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 32 | #450 | 0.17 |
| 1890 | 13 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 13 | #737 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 11 | #812 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 8 | #885 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 9 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 6 | #961 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Freida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Freida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 142 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Freida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Freida, and how old are they?
4,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 42% of the 10,794 Americans ever recorded as Freida. The median Freida alive today is 70 years old; half are between 58 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 4,956 people named Freida (4,956 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 818 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,360 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 608 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 227 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 235 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 254 |
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 Freida born?
The states with the most babies named Freida are New York, North Carolina and Texas, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 613 | #1,108 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 524 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 523 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 448 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Tennessee | 438 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 407 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 399 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 376 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 358 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 297 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Freida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Freida is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Freida 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, Freida is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 51 babies (35%), the 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 Freida
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 Freida and names like it
- Compare Freida and FredaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sFreida peaked in 1947.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Freida since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Freida.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Freida alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.