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Freda vs Fredericka

American parents have registered 42,553 Fredas since 1880, against 1,957 Frederickas. Freda is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Freda against Fredericka, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Freda Fredericka

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Freda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Freda had 24 and Fredericka had 24.

Side by side

  Freda Fredericka
Total US births 42,5531,957
Most in one year 1,02540
Babies in 2025 17under 5
Estimated living today 13,0001,100
Median age today 7057
Peak year 19181947
Best rank 192nd girls1,488th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546thunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 42,527 / 261,957 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Fredas alive today are over 70; half the Frederickas are over 57. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Freda Fredericka
France 805

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Freda and Fredericka.