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Frida vs Frink

American parents have registered 8,491 Fridas since 1880, against 11 Frinks. Frida is still ahead, with 135 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Frida against Frink, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Frida Frink

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

Of the 82 years in which either name was published, Frida for 80 years and Frink for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Frida Frink
Total US births 8,49111
Most in one year 4186
Babies in 2025 135under 5
Estimated living today 8,3002
Median age today 1582
Peak year 20171932
Best rank 693rd girls3,361st boys
Rank in 2025 1,561stunranked
First recorded 18921932
Girls / boys 8,491 / 00 / 11

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 Frinks alive today are over 82; half the Fridas are over 15. That is 67 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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