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Fremont

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Fremont has been given to 482 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1920, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Fremont, 1971

1 in 686,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fremont: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fremont means

Fremont is a given name.

The naming story behind Fremont

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Fremont in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 295.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Fr. Teu. peace protection”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Fremont, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 482 boys were recorded with the name Fremont between 1882 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1920; its best national rank was #978 in 1899.

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 Fremont?

Fremont had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971
1 in 686,000
5 of 3,432,187 births
Among boys only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1971
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
475,803 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fremont 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 1971 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 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fremont. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fremonts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fremont was born before 1924 — so the typical Fremont is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
48
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Choose a decade

1920s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (166).

Is Fremont 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (27)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#978
1899

Spellings of Fremont

Fremont is not the most common spelling — Lemont is, with 40.2% against Fremont's 28.4%.

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 Fremont is used

Across 1910–2025, Fremont was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Fremont has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fremont 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
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Best rank ever
#978
1899
Peak year
1920
27 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
482
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fremont

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

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Sibling names for Fremont

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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