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Fred

Pronounced /fɹɛd/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1928 · #930
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:99 in 2024 (#1,688)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Fred in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1928 with 64 babies, ranked #930.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 2,029 girls have been named Fred since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Fred per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 752 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 582 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 277 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 141 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 34 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A short version of Frederick, Alfred, or Wilfred, also used as a formal male given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/fɹɛd/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Fred, CC BY-SA 4.0.