as a First Name
Originally a short form of various names such as Elfreda and Winifred, also occasionally of Frederica, but now used mainly (though infrequently) as an independent name. In some cases it may have been adopted as an English equivalent of the German name Frieda, a short form of such compound names as Friedegund and Friedelind, of which the common element is Germanic frid- ‘peace’.
| 1,032nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 26,566
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 32,750
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Freda per capita
- 1912
- marked the height of its popularity
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74%
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25%
30-54
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0.31%
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