Fred
Boys' name · Early 20th-century perennial
- Living in the US
- ~103,800 survival-weighted estimate
- 2025 rank
- #1,932 among boys
- Births in 2025
- 80 345,684 since 1880
- Typical age
- 71 years, median
Fred popularity over time
The high point was 1924: 6,566 births recorded as Fred. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. It has held a top-100 place in 76 separate years.
As of 2025 the name sits at #1,932, with 80 births that year. Compared with 2015, births are down 21%. It slipped 247 places against the previous year.
How many people are named Fred?
About 103,800 people named Fred are alive in the United States today. That is out of 345,684 recorded births since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.
How old is the average Fred?
Half of living Freds are older than 71, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1940s. By the site’s era rules that makes Fred a early 20th-century perennial name.
Your Fred
Fred in England and Wales
In England and Wales, Fred ranked #593 in 2025 on 65 births.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.
Notable people named Fred
| Name | Known for | Years | Editions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Fred Rogers | American television personality | 1928–2003 | 75 |
|
Fred Hoyle | British astronomer | 1915–2001 | 69 |
|
Fred Zinnemann | Austrian film director | 1907–1997 | 57 |
|
Fred Thompson | American politician and actor | 1942–2015 | 47 |
|
Fred Durst | American singer, rapper, actor and director | 1970 | 46 |
|
Fred Ramsdell | American immunologist | 1960 | 46 |
|
Fred Willard | American actor and comedian | 1933–2020 | 45 |
| Fred Ward | American actor | 1942–2022 | 42 | |
Photo credits (7)
- Fred Rogers — Walt Seng; Distributed by PBS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Hoyle — AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Clayton Collection, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Zinnemann — MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Thompson — United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Durst — ECarterSterling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Ramsdell — US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Willard — Movieguide®, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 1,824 in 1911 to 3,115 in 1912 — 1.7 times over in a single year.
Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.
People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.
Related pages
- All names from 1924
- Top names of 2025
- Names beginning with F
- Every year, 1880 to 2025
- Names by state
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