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Fred
Pronounced /fɹɛd/
Rank in 2024
#1,688
Born in 2024
99
Peak year
1924 · #32
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 99 boys were named Fred, about 1 in every 17,326.
- It peaked in 1924 with 6,532 babies, ranked #32.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 343,576 boys 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.
- 6.4Greatest1901–27
- 4.9Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 106,625 babies, 6.38 per 1,000. Silent: 102,209 babies, 4.95 per 1,000. Boomers: 74,288 babies, 1.98 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,870 babies, 0.69 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,366 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,515 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,185 babies, 0.05 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.