Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Freta

#37,427 most common girls' name of all time · #60,261 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1916–1942

Rank among girls
#37,427
Rank overall
#60,261 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
6 of 146
All-time
30
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1925 #5,382
Best rank
#4,602 1935
Girls Boys peak 5/yr
19201940

Freta first appears in 1916. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1942 5 — 5 #4,990
1935 5 — 5 #4,602
1926 5 — 5 #5,307
1925 5 — 5 #5,382
1917 5 — 5 #5,061
1916 5 — 5 #4,966