Fredna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Fredna has been given to 488 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1927, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Fredna, 1963

1 in 565,000

Fredna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fredna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fredna means

Fredna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fredna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 488 girls were recorded with the name Fredna between 1912 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,839 in 1927.

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.

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How common is Fredna?

Fredna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963: 1 in 565,000; 7 of 3,958,455 births
Among girls only: 1 in 275,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1963: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,971 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Fredna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 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 391,971 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Frednas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredna was born before 1937 — so the typical Fredna is around 88 today.

Median birth year: 1937; About 88 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 47.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 84; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (135).

Is Fredna 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: —; 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 1927 (22)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,839; 1927

Spellings of Fredna

Fredna is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 53.8% against Fredna's 0.09%.

Edna53.8%295,116
Freda7.7%42,527
Rena7.1%39,124
Brenna5.4%29,371
Frieda4.6%25,506
Freya3.6%19,821
Reyna3.4%18,647
Reina2.6%14,080

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 Fredna is used

Across 1910–2025, Fredna was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 152,563 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 33,333
2Texas1 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. Fredna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fredna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,839; 1927
Peak year: 1927; 22 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1963
All-time count: 488
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Fredna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Freja Freyah Freedom Freeda Freidy Freyja Freddy Fredda Freada Fredia Adna Fredonia Freida Frenchie Fredrika Freddi Fredrica Fredrick Freddye Freydis Fredi Fredie Freddie Evadna

Sibling names for Fredna

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

For a sister

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva Edward George Paul

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud Hosea

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