Frida
Frida was given to 135 girls in 2025, #1,565 among girls’ names; 8,491 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,290 Americans named Frida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Frida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Frida mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Frida is “a female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English.” Its etymology gives the sense “beautiful, beloved” (fríðr).
In Scandinavia, Frida mainly derives from the Old Norse name Fríða, short for female names ending in fríðr (“beautiful, beloved”).
In Central and Eastern Europe, Frida is a short form of compound names containing the Germanic element fried “peace”; cognate to English Freda.
/ˈfɹiːdə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Frida?
#1,565 among girls’ names, 2025
Frida fell from #858 in 2015 to #1,565 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.18 to 0.08 per 1,000.
418 babies in 2017, the peak
Frida peaked in 2017, when 418 girls were given it, #695 among girls’ names. The 135 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 187 | #1,245 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 211 | #1,153 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 224 | #1,108 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 264 | #983 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 299 | #890 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 387 | #729 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 418 | #696 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 418 | #695 | 0.24 |
| 2016 | 357 | #797 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 326 | #858 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 287 | #941 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 197 | #1,224 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 217 | #1,133 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 223 | #1,106 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 247 | #1,017 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 287 | #931 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 314 | #886 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 347 | #829 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 320 | #839 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 352 | #757 | 0.19 |
| 2004 | 368 | #727 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 409 | #648 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 318 | #761 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 248 | #911 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 196 | #1,059 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,401 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 138 | #1,294 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,788 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,934 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,850 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,631 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,541 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,703 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,164 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,910 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,608 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,966 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,905 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,239 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,031 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,604 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,619 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,261 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,933 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,980 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,120 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,234 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,588 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,023 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,683 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,567 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,970 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Frida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Frida has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Frida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Frida, and how old are they?
8,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,491 Americans ever recorded as Frida. The median Frida alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 8,083 people named Frida (8,053 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,074 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 73 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 321 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,690 |
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 Frida born?
The states with the most babies named Frida are California, Texas and New York, with 75% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #983 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 27 | #1,045 | 2.7× |
| New York | 10 | #1,354 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,297 | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #771 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,113 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,195 | 0.1× |
Where Frida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Frida is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.7 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 Frida 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 34,134 babies since 1880, Frida is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 135 of their 171 babies (79%), 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 Frida
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 Frida and names like it
- Compare Frida and FriedaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFrida peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Frida since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Frida: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Frida.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Frida alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.