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Frida

#1,565 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful, beloved

Frida has been given to 8,491 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #1,565 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 418 recorded.

Babies named Frida, 2025

1 in 24,600

Frida over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Frida: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful, beloved

Germanic languages

What Frida means

Frida means “beautiful, beloved”, associated with fríðr.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* In Scandinavia, Frida mainly derives from the Old Norse name Fríða, short for female names ending in fríðr (“beautiful, beloved”). * In Central and Eastern Europe, Frida is a short form of compound names containing the Germanic element fried "peace"; cognate to English Freda.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Frida (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Frida is used in English, Albanian, Danish, Faroese, German, Norwegian, Slovene and Spanish and additional language sections. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frieda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Frida is pronounced /ˈfɹiːdə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,491 girls were recorded with the name Frida between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 418 in 2017; its best national rank was #648 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #890 in 2020 to #1,565 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #858 in 2015 to #1,565 in 2025.

How common is Frida?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,600
135 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,565
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,023 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Frida 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,023 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fridas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frida was born before 2010 — so the typical Frida is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,365
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (3,159).

Is Frida 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
−320
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−675
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−707
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.3%
Peak was 2017 (418)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#648
2003

Spellings of Frida

Frida is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 22.7% against Frida's 0.68%.

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 Frida is used

Across 2016–2025, Frida was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 4,575 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

144 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 2,273
  2. 2Texas1 in 2,500
  3. 3Illinois1 in 2,564
  4. 4Arizona1 in 2,632
  5. 5Nevada1 in 3,448
  6. 6Colorado1 in 4,348
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 5,263
  8. 8New York1 in 5,556

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.

Geographically, Frida is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 92% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Frida around the world

Where Frida 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
    1999–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #350
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2009–2020
    #700
    in 2020
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,672
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #5
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Frida

People whose public names include Frida, 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.

Frida in other languages

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

FredaFrydaFreidaFriedaFridFríða

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

Frida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,565
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 675
Best rank ever
#648
2003
Peak year
2017
418 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,491
Count in 2025
135

Names similar to Frida

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

ElidaJaidaFriedaAlidaZaidaFreidaMaidaLidaVidaAidaNaidaOuidaSaidaFrimetAleidaVaidaMeridaKaidaNidaRashidaZenaidaFrimyDavidaNeida

Names with a curve like Frida

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

KaiyaNathaliaTaliyahSarahiMonserratSalmaKeylaAkiraSkylaKayaJaydeMiya

Sibling names for Frida

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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