Freedom
Freedom is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197650 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1918
- 1,892people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,224 girls have been named Freedom in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1976, with 50 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 27%.
Freedom is used for both sexes: 35% of its bearers are boys (668), most of them born around 2002.
By decade
In 1976, its biggest year
Freedom was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1976 were Jennifer, Amy, Melissa, Heather and Angela. See all of 1976.
Names that rose and fell with Freedom
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Azurepeak 1975
- Neelypeak 1974
- Fantapeak 1977
- Anicapeak 2001
- Aishapeak 1977
- Breepeak 2010
- Tahirapeak 1975
- Shantipeak 2003
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.