Freedom
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Given to girls 64.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 50 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,235since 1918
Freedom over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #8,860 | 11 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #4,362 | 23 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 | #3,815 | 24 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #3,819 | 16 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #2,050 | 49 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #1,840 | 50 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #1,877 | 48 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 | #2,199 | 19 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1918
The first year at least five girls were named Freedom! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Freedom is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Freedom in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Freedom
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 696 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #8,860)
- 4,691 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #8,860)
- 3,733 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
58 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1976 at #1,840 (50 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 29,302
- Highest: 1 in 29,302 girls born in 1976 were named Freedom (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 26.8% of all girls named Freedom (331) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 290 | #1,840 (1976) | #2,931 |
| 1980s | 110 | #3,719 (1980) | #7,108 |
| 1990s | 120 | #4,870 (1999) | #7,903 |
| 2000s | 331 | #2,881 (2001) | #4,364 |
| 2010s | 273 | #3,996 (2017) | #5,053 |
| 2020s | 106 | #4,169 (2020) | #7,175 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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