Freeman
Freeman reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 393, and has been recorded 10,996 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,050th. About 4,300 Freemans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Freeman boys named Freeman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,996
- Estimated living today
- 4,300
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 393rd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,050th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 10,991
How old the living Freemans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,996 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,300 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Proprialisation of freeman. From originating as a freeman (instead of a serf, indentured, or some other status).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Freemans
- Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)theoretical physicist and mathematician
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941)British politician
- Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957)Irish mystery author
People named Freeman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Freeman is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Freeman is most concentrated in Alabama (5.3×), Maine (4.9×), Georgia (3.5×), Arkansas (3.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Freeman peaked:
Freeman elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Freeman | 10 | 3,744th |
| France boys | Freeman | 10 | 4,419th |
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.
Related names
Freeman against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.