Freddy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Fred in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 14 more and פרדי in FR France, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Freddy is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name431K records spelled Freddy21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Frëddy, Fréddy, Frêddy, Frëddÿ, Frèddy

• French given name125K records spelled Freddy10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Spain

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Fréddy, Frèddy, Frêddy, Frëddy, Frėddÿ

• a separate given name23K records spelled Freddy2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Bolivia, India

  Also written Fréddy

• Indonesian given name18K records spelled Freddy4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Peru

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Fréddy, Freddŷ

• Thai given name2.3K records spelled Freddy19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Laos, Thailand, United Kingdom

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Fred, เฟรด, Ferdy, เฟร็ด, Fraid

• Finnish given name1.6K records spelled Freddy4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, Estonia

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Frêďďŷ

• English given name722 records spelled Freddy112 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Colombia, Mexico

  Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Fredy, Freddie

• Croatian given name641 records spelled Freddy21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Peru, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

  Also written Fredi, Fredy, Фреди

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Freddy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Freddy är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform till → Fredrik. En känd namnbärare är sångaren Freddie Wadling (1951–2016).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Diminutive of Frédéric, Germanic 'peace ruler'.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, ) Freddie ['frech]: männl. Vom., englische Koseform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 115 years between 1896–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Freddy Quinnb. 1931ATAustrian singer-actor
• Freddy Coleb. 1931USAmerican jazz singer and pianist
• Freddy Cannonb. 1936USAmerican rock and roll singer (1936–2026)
• Freddy Rincónb. 1966COColombian footballer (1966–2022)
• Freddy Rodriguezb. 1975USAmerican actor
• Freddy Garcíab. 1976VEbaseball player
• Freddy Eastwoodb. 1983GBBritish footballer (born 1983)
• Freddy Wexlerb. 1986USAmerican musician
• Freddy Adub. 1989GHAmerican soccer player
• Freddy Carterb. 1993GBEnglish actor

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,068 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Freddy?

We estimate roughly 199 thousand people bear Freddy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Freddy have the most bearers?

Freddy is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled freddy.

Where is Freddy most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Freddy is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 373 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.

How common is Freddy compared with other names?

In Venezuela, Freddy is the 67th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.

Is Freddy a male or female name?

Freddy is a male 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 Freddy mean?

Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Frederick.