Freddy
Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430 · #1,421 for boys in 2025, 127 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1946 · 405 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 26,796since 1896
Freddy over time
Rank among boys' names. Freddy has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,421 | 127 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,332 | 144 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,242 | 157 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,322 | 142 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,383 | 132 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,262 | 145 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,303 | 141 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,128 | 171 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,153 | 164 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,216 | 155 | |
| 2015 | — | #993 | 207 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,014 | 201 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,014 | 192 | |
| 2012 | — | #909 | 227 | |
| 2011 | — | #906 | 223 | |
| 2010 | — | #805 | 268 | |
| 2009 | — | #784 | 289 | |
| 2008 | — | #712 | 327 | |
| 2007 | — | #700 | 333 | |
| 2006 | — | #643 | 361 | |
| 2005 | — | #651 | 333 | |
| 2004 | — | #642 | 324 | |
| 2003 | — | #606 | 344 | |
| 2002 | — | #641 | 302 | |
| 2001 | — | #607 | 323 | |
| 2000 | — | #608 | 315 | |
| 1999 | — | #608 | 301 | |
| 1998 | — | #640 | 276 | |
| 1997 | — | #602 | 293 | |
| 1996 | — | #568 | 322 | |
| 1995 | — | #555 | 335 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #584 | 315 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #546 | 352 |
| 1992 | — | #523 | 371 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #536 | 356 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #542 | 340 |
| 1989 | — | #503 | 359 | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #543 | 288 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #528 | 290 |
| 1986 | — | #563 | 249 | |
| 1985 | — | #547 | 258 | |
| 1984 | — | #559 | 234 | |
| 1983 | — | #550 | 232 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #553 | 244 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #582 | 216 |
| 1980 | — | #586 | 215 | |
| 1979 | — | #625 | 187 | |
| 1978 | — | #597 | 196 | |
| 1977 | — | #576 | 210 | |
| 1976 | — | #538 | 224 | |
| 1975 | — | #578 | 194 | |
| 1974 | — | #581 | 191 | |
| 1973 | — | #540 | 208 | |
| 1972 | — | #522 | 229 | |
| 1971 | — | #587 | 196 | |
| 1970 | — | #550 | 219 | |
| 1969 | — | #555 | 201 | |
| 1968 | — | #540 | 195 | |
| 1967 | — | #496 | 228 | |
| 1966 | — | #468 | 266 | |
| 1965 | — | #477 | 267 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #470 | 284 |
| 1963 | — | #442 | 324 | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #463 | 297 |
| 1961 | — | #437 | 333 | |
| 1960 | — | #406 | 383 | |
| 1959 | — | #422 | 356 | |
| 1958 | — | #414 | 358 | |
| 1957 | — | #376 | 422 | |
| 1956 | — | #357 | 426 | |
| 1955 | — | #349 | 430 | |
| 1954 | — | #359 | 404 | |
| 1953 | — | #342 | 407 | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #349 | 389 |
| 1951 | — | #337 | 408 | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | #327 | 427 |
| 1949 | — | #332 | 424 | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | #334 | 405 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #327 | 436 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 | #321 | 405 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | #324 | 335 |
| 1944 | — | #339 | 311 | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | #333 | 334 |
| 1942 | — | #331 | 337 | |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | #344 | 285 |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | #324 | 306 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | #332 | 277 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | #360 | 240 |
| 1937 | — | #360 | 225 | |
| 1936 | — | #402 | 188 | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | #400 | 187 |
| 1934 | #3,159 | 8 | #427 | 174 |
| 1933 | — | #524 | 117 | |
| 1932 | — | #515 | 125 | |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 | #512 | 126 |
| 1930 | — | #549 | 120 | |
| 1929 | — | #591 | 104 | |
| 1928 | — | #708 | 80 | |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | #733 | 79 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | #803 | 67 |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 | #945 | 51 |
| 1924 | — | #1,117 | 41 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,041 | 46 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,242 | 34 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,448 | 27 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,543 | 24 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #1,624 | 21 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #1,596 | 22 |
| 1917 | — | #1,755 | 18 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,549 | 21 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,600 | 19 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,772 | 13 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
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| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
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| 1896 | — | #982 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Freddy! It came in at #982, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1897–1908, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Freddy is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#268 · 1 in 1,442
- Connecticut#307 · 1 in 3,290
- New York#333 · 1 in 3,243
- Texas#413 · 1 in 3,597
- California#414 · 1 in 3,929
Best ever in a state: #120 in New Mexico, 1947.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #268 | 7 | 1 in 1,442 |
| Connecticut | #307 | 5 | 1 in 3,290 |
| New York | #333 | 34 | 1 in 3,243 |
| Texas | #413 | 32 | 1 in 3,597 |
| California | #414 | 43 | 1 in 3,929 |
| New Jersey | #517 | 6 | 1 in 6,897 |
| Florida | #554 | 8 | 1 in 6,376 |
| Georgia | #610 | 5 | 1 in 7,552 |
| Ohio | #615 | 6 | 1 in 12,845 |
| Illinois | #765 | 6 | 1 in 13,231 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Freddy
- 89 spots since 2024 (#1,332 → #1,421)
- 159 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,421)
- 428 spots since 2015 (#993 → #1,421)
- Biggest jump: 172 spots in 1925 (#1,117 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 223 spots in 2016 (#993 → #1,216)
- Debuted 1896
- Peaked 1946 at #321 (405 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 90 yrs · run 1925–2012
- Highest: 1 in 3,788 boys born in 1940 were named Freddy (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,449 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #321 in 1946, was only 1 in 4,010 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.0% of all boys named Freddy (4,027) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #982 (1896) | #982 |
| 1900s | 6 | #1,277 (1909) | #1,277 |
| 1910s | 122 | #1,549 (1916) | #1,683 |
| 1920s | 553 | #591 (1929) | #1,017 |
| 1930s | 1,779 | #332 (1939) | #438 |
| 1940s | 3,578 | #321 (1946) | #331 |
| 1950s | 4,027 | #327 (1950) | #363 |
| 1960s | 2,778 | #406 (1960) | #475 |
| 1970s | 2,054 | #522 (1972) | #569 |
| 1980s | 2,585 | #503 (1989) | #551 |
| 1990s | 3,261 | #523 (1992) | #570 |
| 2000s | 3,251 | #606 (2003) | #659 |
| 2010s | 1,949 | #805 (2010) | #1,044 |
| 2020s | 847 | #1,242 (2023) | #1,327 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Freddy in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,377 of them was named Freddy, which outranked 91.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.