Girl name#1,334 of girl names
Freida
Pronounced F R AY1 D AA1 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1947
- 141 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Freida?
Freida is a girls' name, and first appears in 1884. It has been given to 10,912 children — the 1,334th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 216 births across the past decade, against a peak of 224 in a single year. That peak was in 1947.
Fryda is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Freida and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Fryda
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- F R AY1 D AA1 · F R AY1 D IY1 EY1
- Stress pattern:
- 11 · 111
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Freida
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Freida
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Freida?
- Freida ranks 1,334th among girls' names in US records, with 10,912 births since 1884. Over the past decade it accounts for 216.
- Is Freida a unisex name?
- No. Freida is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Freida most popular?
- 1947, when 224 children were given the name. It has been in use for 141 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Freida spelled?
- Fryda. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.