girl's name

Frida

  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 11,035

Northern Ireland

#386

2021 births

Frida is a girl's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 135 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2017, when 418 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 24,559 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1892.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Frida over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1890s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,159
'90 '00 '10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Frida by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1890s 10
1900s 5
1910s 37
1920s 42
1930s 26
1940s 6
1950s 29
1960s 50
1970s 45
1980s 37
1990s 648
2000s 3,159
2010s 3,077
2020s (to 2025) 1,320

How popular is Frida?

In 2025, Frida was given to 135 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Frida is used

Northern Ireland #386 4 in 2021
Scotland #446 7 in 2024
Ireland #748 4 in 2020
England & Wales #932 38 in 2025
United States #1,564 135 in 2025
France #1,651 20 in 2025
Canada #2,020 11 in 2024

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Frida

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Frida also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Frida over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Frida in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Dutch
Frieda
Polish
Fryda
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Freda Freida

Sibling names for Frida

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Frida — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Frida

How popular is the name Frida?

In 2025, Frida was given to 135 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Frida a girl's or a boy's name?

Frida is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Frida?

Frida has 2 syllables.

When was Frida most popular?

Frida peaked in 2017, when 418 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Frida a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Frida currently ranks #446 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.