Frady
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FRAY-dee
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,459 for girls
Frady is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “joy”. In 2025 it ranked 4,459th for girls in the US (31 babies).
What does Frady mean?
Germanic: Yiddish pet form, from freyd 'joy'
“joy”
A Yiddish pet form of Freyde, meaning joy, used in Orthodox Jewish families.
Is Frady a girl's or a boy's name?
Frady is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 31 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Frady in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,459among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 31about 1 in 52,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 31 girls in the US were named Frady, making it the 4,459th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. It first appears in the records in 1960.
2025 had the most girls named Frady of any year since it first appeared, in 1960.
Half of all the girls named Frady in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 94 girls in the US were given Frady or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,772, up from #4,459 for this spelling alone.
Frady in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,459 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,959 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,445 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,695 |
Names like Frady
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Finley Faigy Brynlee Teagan Kennedy Brooklyn Blakely Kinley Tilly Murphy Idy Braelynn
Other spellings of Frady
Names related to Frady
More Germanic names
Amelia Liam Henry Charlotte William Archie Charlie Emma Freddie Ella Harry Millie Albie Matilda Louie Miles
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Frady: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/frady, updated 20 October 2026.