Freddy
About 26,968 American babies have been named Freddy since 1896, most of them around 1947. In 2025 it ranked 1,421st. About 20,000 Freddys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Freddy boys named Freddy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,968
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 327th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,421st
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 172 / 26,796
How old the living Freddys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,968 babies given the name since 1896, about 20,000 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 5,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 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 Freddys
- Freddy Adu (born 1989)American soccer player
- Freddy Rincón (1966–2022)Colombian footballer
- Freddy Quinn (born 1931)Austrian singer-actor
- Freddy Rodriguez (born 1975)American actor
- Freddy Maertens (born 1952)Belgian cyclist
- Freddy Cannon (1936–2026)American rock and roll singer
- Freddy Loix (born 1970)Belgian rally driver
- Freddy Heineken (1923–2002)Dutch businessman
People named Freddy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Freddy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Freddy is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.8×), New Mexico (2.6×), Texas (2.3×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Freddy peaked:
Freddy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Freddy | 16,575 | 104th |
| England and Wales boys | Freddy | 4,249 | 199th |
| Norway boys | Freddy | 1,269 | 138th |
| Scotland boys | Freddy | 132 | 278th |
| Ireland boys | Freddy | 97 | 307th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Freddy | 54 | 234th |
| Belgium boys | Freddy | 5 | 1,087th |
| France girls | Freddy | 5 | 1,903rd |
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.
Freddy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Freddy | 3,470 | 4,140 |
| the Netherlands girls | Freddy | 36 | 80 |
| Finland boys | Freddy | 40 | 52 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Where Freddy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 926 men called Freddy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Freddy | 46 | 0.086 | 1,015 |
| Bizkaia | Freddy | 38 | 0.067 | 875 |
| Rioja, La | Freddy | 10 | 0.062 | 940 |
| Balears, Illes | Freddy | 38 | 0.061 | 1,015 |
| Cuenca | Freddy | 6 | 0.059 | 930 |
| Madrid | Freddy | 201 | 0.059 | 953 |
Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Freddy 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.