Frieda

Where Frieda comes from

The dictionaries list Frieda as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, the German equivalent of Freda — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #309 among girls — 26 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Frieda Fromm-Reichmann born
    American German-born psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
  3. 1896
    Peak, #141
    339 babies named Frieda — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1904
    Frieda Belinfante born
    Dutch-American conductor and resistance fighter
  5. 1942
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #574.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, the German equivalent of Freda.
Namesakes
  • Frieda Fromm-Reichmann · American German-born psychiatrist & psychoanalyst, 1889–1957
  • Frieda Belinfante · Dutch-American conductor and resistance fighter, 1904–1995
  • Frieda Inescort · Scottish actress, 1901–1976
  • Frieda Dänzer · alpine skier, 1931–2015
  • Frieda Hempel · German soprano singer, 1885–1955

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.