Frida
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a female given name of mainly Old Norse origin. The oldest known use in Sweden is from 1388. It can also be a short form of the Germanic names Frideborg, Alfrida, Elfrida and Valfrida
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɾiða/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 329(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 1.2K
- USUnited States1 in 22Kas Freda
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Frida itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- 1 in 329 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled פרידה in RO Romania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Germanic names with frid ‘peace’, or from Old Norse Fríða ‘beautiful’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Frida is read(measured from records)
Frida is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish38%
Hipocorístico germánico con primer elemento frithu "paz".
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Swedish16%
a female given name of mainly Old Norse origin. The oldest known use in Sweden is from 1388. It can also be a short form of the Germanic names Frideborg, Alfrida, Elfrida and Valfrida
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Frida är dels ursprungligen en nordisk smekform till kvinnonamn på → -frid, dels en tysk smekform till namn på → Fried-. Det var bland de mest populära flicknamnen under decennierna runt millennieskiftet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 18 februari och i den finlandssvenska 29 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English10%
A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish9.3%
a female given name of Old Norse and Germanic origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frida counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Frida | 12 |
| SE Sweden | #847 | 30,990 | 1 in 329 | 31K | Frida | 53 |
| RO Romania | #129 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | פרידה | 4 |
| US United States | — | 15,119as Freda | 1 in 22K | 15K | Frida | 224 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,435 | 1 in 579 | 33K | Frida | 24 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8,711 | 1 in 674 | 8.7K | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Frida is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Short form of Germanic names with frid ‘peace’, or from Old Norse Fríða ‘beautiful’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frida Uhlb. 1872ATAustrian writer (1872–1943)
- Frida Richardb. 1873ATAustrian actress (1873-1946)
- Frida Leiderb. 1888DEsinger (1888–1975)
- Frida Kahlob. 1907MXMexican painter (1907–1954)
- Frida Boccarab. 1940MAFrench singer
- Frida Gianninib. 1972ITItalian fashion designer
- Frida Hallgrenb. 1974SESwedish actress
- Frida Gustavssonb. 1993SESwedish model
- Frida Sandénb. 1994SESwedish singer
- Frida Maanumb. 1999NONorwegian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 99 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 33K | #123 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31K | #139 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 9.4K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8.7K | #81 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.1K | #2,855 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 408 | #5 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 337 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 135 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30 | #2,855 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Frida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Frida in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frida.
- Where is Frida most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frida is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 329 people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Frida?
- A machine transcription gives /fɾiða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Frida come from?
- Short form of Germanic names with frid ‘peace’, or from Old Norse Fríða ‘beautiful’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Frida a male or female name?
- Frida is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Frida mean?
- In Swedish, a female given name of mainly Old Norse origin. The oldest known use in Sweden is from 1388. It can also be a short form of the Germanic names Frideborg, Alfrida, Elfrida and Valfrida
- What are other forms of the name Frida?
- In the etymology graph, Freida is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Frida?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30,990 people named Frida, about 1 in 329 residents.
- How common is Frida compared with other names?
- In Romania, Frida is the 129th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Frida?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fridaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frida” — the 129th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.