Freda
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Freda
Freda, along with near-identical twin sisters Frida and Frieda, has not been popular in the US for decades. After the two world wars, German names fell out of favor in the US and UK. The similar-sounding but etymologically unrelated mythological name Freya is much more popular, not only in the US and the UK but throughout the English-speaking world, in Germany and Scandinavia.
Freda is also given to boys.
Pronounced FRED-uh.
As of October 2026, Freda ranked #6630 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #161 in 1897.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
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Freda on lists
Famous Fredas
- Winifred May "Freda" Dudley WardGirl
English socialite and mistress of the future King Edward VIII
- Winifred Alice "Freda" JamesGirl
English tennis player
- Freda Charcilia PayneGirl
American R&B singer
- Freda Josephine McDonaldGirl
birth name of Josephine Baker, American,French dancer and entertainer
- Freda Foh ShenGirl
American actress
- Freda Gladys NewcombeGirl
English neuropsychologist
- Freda MeissnerGirl
Blau, Austrian politician
- Winifred "Freda" UtleyGirl
English scholar and author
- Freda BediGirl
early English Buddhist
Freda in pop culture
- Mrs Freda FlowerGirl
rich widow interested in spiritualism in Muriel Spark's play "The Bachelors" (1961)
- Freda LarchGirl
"Second Resurrectionist" in "The Good Companions" (1929) by J. B. Priestley
- FredaGirl
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- "Good Ol' Freda" (2013)Girl
documentary about Freda Kelly, lifelong secretary for The Beatles
- FredaGirl
character in G. A. Henty's "The Dragon and the Raven"
- FredaGirl
character in the lord of the rings