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Freida

#6,399 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Frieda

Freida has been given to 10,794 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #6,399 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1947, with 224 recorded.

Babies named Freida, 2025

1 in 184,000

Freida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Freida: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Frieda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Freida means

Freida is a variant of Frieda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frieda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,794 girls were recorded with the name Freida between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 1947; its best national rank was #450 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,533 in 2020 to #6,399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,308 in 2015 to #6,399 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.

How common is Freida?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,399
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Freida 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Freida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Freidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Freida was born before 1939 — so the typical Freida is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,692
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Choose a decade

1920s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (1,839).

Is Freida 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
+963
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−866
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−91
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.0%
Peak was 1947 (224)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#450
1891

Spellings of Freida

Freida is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 79.2% against Freida's 1.4%.

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 Freida is used

Across 1910–2025, Freida was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 21,943 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 6,250
  2. 2Alabama1 in 7,692
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 7,692
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 8,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 9,091
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 9,091
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 10,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 11,111

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

Freida around the world

Where Freida 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
    2000–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1946–1954
    #475
    in 1954

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

Notable people named Freida

People whose public names include Freida, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Freida in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Freida. Linked forms have their own page here.

FredaFridaFriedaFrid

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Freida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 866
Best rank ever
#450
1891
Peak year
1947
224 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,794
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Freida

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

FreddieFreyjaFreedaFreyaJaidaFredaFridaElidaFrediaAlidaAleidaVidaFreedomAidaZaidaMeridaFreddaMaidaRashidaZenaidaLidaDavidaZoraidaFreja

Names with a curve like Freida

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

RethaMariettaRetaCelestineJannieMelvaGildaDelphineNonaRowenaJoeGeorgianna

Sibling names for Freida

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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