Freda

Where Freda comes from

A feminine form of Frederick and Fred, also a short form of Winifred.
— Wiktionary's entry for Freda
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #265 among girls — 34 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #161
    279 babies named Freda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1927
    Freda Meissner-Blau born
    Austrian politician and environmental activist
  4. 1942
    Freda Payne born
    American singer and actress
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #903.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Freda Payne · American singer and actress, born 1942
  • Freda Meissner-Blau · Austrian politician and environmental activist, 1927–2015
  • Freda Akosua Prempeh · Ghanaian politician, born 1966
  • Freda du Faur · Australian mountaineer, 1882–1935
  • Freda James · English tennis player, 1911–1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.