Freddy

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Freddy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Freddy: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #115, and it stood at #318 in 2024.

5registrars recorded it
104times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#115highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#633
1997	#725
1998	#813
1999	#718
2000	#651
2001	#484
2002	#633
2003	#406
2004	#305
2005	#288
2006	#266
2007	#267
2008	#298
2009	#228
2010	#224
2011	#257
2012	#238
2013	#241
2014	#199
2015	#221
2016	#229
2017	#218
2018	#251
2019	#249
2020	#275
2021	#293
2022	#314
2023	#284
2024	#318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 50 of the 52 years from 1945 to 1996.

In 2024: #318 among boys in England and Wales, #432 among boys in Scotland, #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #115 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–1996
Highest recorded position: #115 among boys in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–1996).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #318 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Freddy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 50 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,269 births with the name.

Freddy across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Freddy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#115 (1945)	#115 (1945)	#571 (1996)	50 of 52	1,269 (1945–1996)	51 (1969)
England and Wales · Boys	#633 (1996)	#199 (2014)	#318 (2024)	29 of 29	4,114 (1996–2024)	285 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#629 (2007)	#307 (2020)	#472 (2024)	15 of 18	97 (2007–2024)	14 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#281 (2014)	#234 (2022)	#272 (2023)	9 of 10	48 (2014–2023)	8 (2022)

Freddy by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Freddy in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	141	5 of 10	28
1950s	258	10 of 10	26
1960s	358	10 of 10	36
1970sbusiest	373	10 of 10	37
1980s	112	10 of 10	11
1990s	27	5 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Freddy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #115 in Norway in 1945.

Freddy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#318	137	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#284	161	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#314	144	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#293	161	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#275	172	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#249	197	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#251	204	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#218	244	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#229	245	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#221	254	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#199	285	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#241	210	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#238	212	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#257	188	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#224	214	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#228	197	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#298	138	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#267	151	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#266	137	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#288	112	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#305	97	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#406	64	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#633	31	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#484	42	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#651	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#718	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#633	25	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#272	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#234	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#283	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#318	5	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#281	6	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#281	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#571	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#480	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#595	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#572	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#454	8	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#619	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#444	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#493	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#345	13	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#329	14	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#542	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#379	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#329	14	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#246	20	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#319	14	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#238	22	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#180	36	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#166	41	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#191	34	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#192	33	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#164	43	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#171	42	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#173	41	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#193	32	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#149	49	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#139	51	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#143	49	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#149	44	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#186	29	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#192	27	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#155	39	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#180	25	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#160	31	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#154	34	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#168	29	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#166	28	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#172	25	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#173	24	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#183	23	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#141	38	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#195	19	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#177	24	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#158	30	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#193	19	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#162	28	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#174	23	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#179	23	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#191	21	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#167	28	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#115	46	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#396	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	14	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#438	8	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	10	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#459	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1945 and 2024, ranked in 78 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #115, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 285 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Freddie-Joe · #2027, 11y
Freddie-Lee · #1442, 17y
Frederic · #625, 29y
Frederica · #1666, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ahmad · #118, 76y
Jim · #121, 77y
Marina · #122, 73y
Edmund · #103, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Borghild · #115, 61y
Didrik · #115, 60y
Henny · #115, 67y
Arnstein · #116, 52y

Freddy was ranked #115 in Norway · Boys in 1945. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Freddy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Freddy without appearing here.

Freddy moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #633 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #406 and #1132.
Emil Compare
In 2022 they stood at #509 and #509 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #396 and #770.
Jonas Compare
In 2022 they stood at #509 and #454 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #396 and #770.
Markus Compare
In 2022 they stood at #509 and #454 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #396 and #770.

Moved ahead of Freddy

Lukas Compare
In 1988 they stood at #444 and #548 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #619 and #335.
Brian Compare
In 1988 they stood at #444 and #500 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #619 and #346.
Ben Compare
In 1990 they stood at #454 and #481 in Norway · Boys; by 1991 that had become #572 and #311.
Arthur Compare
In 1988 they stood at #493 and #522 in Norway · Boys; by 1989 that had become #619 and #369.

Moved the opposite way to Freddy

Eirik Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 while Eirik went from #136 to #14.
Elias Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 while Elias went from #328 to #87.
Emil Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 while Emil went from #271 to #35.
Even Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 while Even went from #180 to #38.

Moved the same way as Freddy

Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 and Arild from #32 to #221.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 and Arne from #6 to #120.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 and Bjørn from #3 to #47.
Dag Compare
Between 1945 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Freddy went from #115 to #571 and Dag from #48 to #179.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #115 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Freddy

Freddy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Freddy across 4 official records

Freddy by decade in Norway · Boys

Freddy appears in

Popularity data

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Freddy moved ahead of

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Freddy at a glance

Freddy across 4 official records

Freddy by decade in Norway · Boys

Freddy appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Freddy

Freddy and the names beside it

Freddy moved ahead of

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