girls:
172 births since 1918
#5544 (3rd percentile)
boys:
26.5k births since 1896
#703 (85th percentile)
overall:
26.7k births since 1896
#1553 (80th percentile)
The name Freddy is the #1,553 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,693 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 79.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #703 (84.7% percentile) for all time with 26,521 births since 1896. For girls, it ranks #5,544 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 172 births since 1918.
Freddy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Freddy is available in 113 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (113 years for boys and 29 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Freddy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Freddy reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 48.3% percentile (ranked #309) with 235 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 258 births per million (ranked 44.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Freddy ranks #759 for boys (16.7% percentile) with 86 births per million, which is 33.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Freddy reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #623) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Freddy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Freddy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Freddy is pronounced as FREH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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