Fraida
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FRAY-dah
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Fraida is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “joy”. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Fraida mean?
Germanic: Yiddish Freyde, related to German Freude
“joy”
Is Fraida a girl's or a boy's name?
Fraida is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fraida in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Fraida, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 36 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
2025 had fewer girls named Fraida than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Fraida in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fraida in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,558 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,579 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,011 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,908 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,660 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,115 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,127 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
Names like Fraida
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zaira Zayla Salma Hafsa Ayla Amira Zainab Salem Aaliyah Zahara Rahma
Names related to Fraida
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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, “Fraida: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fraida, updated 20 October 2026.