Fraidy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- FRAY-dee
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #3,100 for girls
Fraidy is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “joy”. In 2025 it ranked 3,100th for girls in the US (52 babies).
What does Fraidy mean?
Germanic: Yiddish pet form of Fraida
“joy”
Yiddish pet form of Fraida, from freyd 'joy', used in Orthodox Jewish families.
Is Fraidy a girl's or a boy's name?
Fraidy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 52 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fraidy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,100among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 52about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 52 girls in the US were named Fraidy, making it the 3,100th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,675th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.
Half of all the girls named Fraidy in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 94 girls in the US were given Fraidy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,772, up from #3,100 for this spelling alone.
Fraidy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,100 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,047 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,584 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,593 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,734 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,675 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,336 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,236 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,696 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,588 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,841 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,101 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,701 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,987 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,071 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,859 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,869 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,566 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,085 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,974 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,829 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,522 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,185 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,489 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,864 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,060 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,672 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,978 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,200 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,539 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,106 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,918 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,153 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
Names like Fraidy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Cassidy Brooklyn Kennedy Faigy Brynlee Brynn Finley Keiry Kinley Kenley Idy
Other spellings of Fraidy
Names related to Fraidy
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, “Fraidy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fraidy, updated 20 October 2026.