Fred'
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fred' is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Congo - Kinshasa it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (cf. German Low German: Freed, Freden, as another possible influence).
- USUnited States1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 254K
- SESweden1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
129,142 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Fred in US United States, FR France, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)- Old Norsefriðr(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*friþuzcf. German Low German: Freed(measured from records)
From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (cf. German Low German: Freed, Freden, as another possible influence).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fred' 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 129,142 | 1 in 2.6K | 129K | Fred | 255 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,075 | 1 in 30K | 7.4K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,416 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.4K | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,632 | 1 in 3.4K | 4.1K | — | 10 |
| FR France | #448 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 254K | 4.2K | Fred | 338 |
| FI Finland | — | 231 | 1 in 24K | 552 | — | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #93 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 789K | — | Fred | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 74 | 1 in 10K | 74 | — | — |
129,142 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fred' mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse friðr, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (cf. German Low German: Freed, Freden, as another possible influence). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Fred' a male or female name?
- Fred' is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Fred' have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 129 thousand people named Fred', more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fred.
- Where is Fred' most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fred' is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fred'?
- In the United States, the national register counted 129,142 people named Fred' in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Fred' compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Fred' is the 93rd most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fred'The 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, “Fred'” — the 93rd most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.