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Freeda

#15,681 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Freeda has been given to 3,072 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #15,681 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Freeda, 2025

1 in 663,000

Freeda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Freeda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Freeda means

Freeda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Freeda is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,072 girls were recorded with the name Freeda between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1924; its best national rank was #696 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,145 in 2020 to #15,681 in 2025.

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 Freeda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,681
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Freeda 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Freeda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Freedas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Freeda was born before 1927 — so the typical Freeda is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
393
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (884).

Is Freeda 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
+405
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,536
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1924 (99)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#696
1902

Spellings of Freeda

Freeda is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 81.7% against Freeda's 0.41%.

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 Freeda is used

Across 1910–2025, Freeda was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 48,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 6,667
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 8,333
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 16,667
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  5. 5Missouri1 in 25,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 33,333
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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. Freeda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Freeda around the world

Where Freeda 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
    2008–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Freeda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,681
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,536
Best rank ever
#696
1902
Peak year
1924
99 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,072
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Freeda

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

FredaFreyjaFreidaFrediaFreedomMakedaFreddieFreddaJaedaFrejaSyedaFreyaVaedaAlmedaLedaNedaFrednaFredFreyahFriedaLavedaFreidyFredericaEda

Names with a curve like Freeda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Freeda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NeomaRozellaNaomaMozellArdellArdellaOssieGarnettEleaseEldoraLarueLaverna

Sibling names for Freeda

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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