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Fredo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Italian origin

Fredo has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1985, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Fredo, 2022

1 in 677,000

Fredo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fredo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Italian origin

Italian

What Fredo means

Fredo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Fredo is used in English. Its origins include Italian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Fredo between 1985 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1985; its best national rank was #6,888 in 1985.

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 Fredo?

Fredo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fredo 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fredos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredo was born before 1985 — so the typical Fredo is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Fredo 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (5)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,888
1985

Spellings of Fredo

Fredo is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 77.7% against Fredo's <0.01%.

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.

Fredo around the world

Where Fredo 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.

  • France
    1931–2012
    #6,679
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Fredo 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
#6,888
1985
Peak year
1985
5 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fredo

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

FreyrFreddFredaFreyFredysFrederiFreelinFreelonFrelandFrezellFreylinFreeLaredoFreddiFredreckFremonFremanFreddickFredricksFredariusFreemontFreadFredisFredreick

Sibling names for Fredo

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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