Freddie
The boy's name Freddie has been in the national records since 1880, with 83,643 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,509th. About 43,000 Freddies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Freddie boys named Freddie
Girls and boys called Freddie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Freddie crossed from girls to boys in 1899, and has stayed there for 127 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 2025 it was 89%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 134 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 83,643
- Estimated living today
- 43,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 153rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,509th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 10,328 / 73,315
How old the living Freddies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 83,643 babies given the name since 1880, about 43,000 are alive — 52 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 22,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Freddies
- Freddie Mercury (1946–1991)British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen
- Freddie Ljungberg (born 1977)Swedish association football player and manager
- Freddie Prinze Jr. (born 1976)American actor
- Freddie Hubbard (1938–2008)American jazz trumpeter
- Freddie (born 1990)Hungarian singer
- Freddie King (1934–1976)American blues guitarist and singer
- Freddie Bartholomew (1924–1992)American actor
- Freddie Stroma (born 1987)British actor
People named Freddie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Freddie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Freddie is most concentrated in Mississippi (4.7×), Arkansas (4.7×), Louisiana (3.7×), South Carolina (3.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Freddie peaked:
Freddie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Freddie | 49,471 | 17th |
| Scotland boys | Freddie | 1,934 | 12th |
| Ireland boys | Freddie | 1,104 | 60th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Freddie | 923 | 15th |
| France boys | Freddie | 145 | 5,010th |
| New Zealand boys | Freddie | 106 | 81st |
| England and Wales girls | Freddie | 62 | 3,318th |
| France girls | Freddie | 10 | 2,087th |
| Poland boys | Freddie | 2 birth registrations | 614th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Freddie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Freddie | 28 | 36 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Freddie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.