Fred
Fred is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 14th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19246,532 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1885
- Since 1880
- 345,605people given the name
The story in the numbers
343,576 boys have been named Fred in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 6,532 births — 0.58% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 6,532 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 123 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 76 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,029 girls have also been given it, 0.59% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Fred | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15,602 | |
| 1890s | 14,270 | |
| 1900s | 13,076 | |
| 1910s | 44,345 | |
| 1920s | 62,743 | |
| 1930s | 56,162 | |
| 1940s | 56,665 | |
| 1950s | 37,446 | |
| 1960s | 23,190 | |
| 1970s | 9,426 | |
| 1980s | 4,810 | |
| 1990s | 2,779 | |
| 2000s | 1,559 | |
| 2010s | 1,042 | |
| 2020s | 461 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Fred was the 32nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Fred
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Budpeak 1928
- Harrypeak 1918
- Claudepeak 1920
- Adolphuspeak 1922
- Frankpeak 1918
- Georgepeak 1921
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Irapeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.