Freida

Where Freida comes from

Freida hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #930 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1891
    Peak, #447
    32 babies named Freida — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,571.
  4. 1984
    Freida Pinto born
    Indian actress
  5. 2000
    Freida Lee Mock born
    American filmmaker
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Freida Pinto · Indian actress, born 1984
  • Freida Lee Mock · American filmmaker, born 2000
  • Freida Ruth Heighway · Australian gynaecologist and obstetrician, 1907–1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.