Fredi

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Fredi has been given to 985 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 44 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Fredi, 2024

1 in 669,000

Fredi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Fredi over time

In 2024, Fredi went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19392024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Fredi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fredi means

Fredi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fredi is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 899 boys were recorded with the name Fredi between 1976 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,900 in 1994.

In the United States, 86 girls were recorded with the name Fredi between 1939 and 1956. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1942; its best national rank was #3,213 in 1945.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fredi?

Fredi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fredi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fredis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredi was born before 2001 — so the typical Fredi is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
899
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (323).

Is Fredi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (44)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,900
1994

Spellings of Fredi

Fredi is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 73.7% against Fredi's 0.19%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fredi is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Fredi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 216,986 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fredi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Fredi is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Fredi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 463,200 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Fredi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fredi around the world

Where Fredi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2022
    #3,450
    in 2022
  • France
    1934–2004
    #4,131
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Fredi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,900
1994
Peak year
1994
44 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
899
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,213
1945
Peak year
1942
9 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
1956
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Fredi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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