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The first name 
Fred

Fred is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.

Fred is a well-known but special name!

Fred is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1486 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,485 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 296,614 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Fred. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Fred

Fred -
very popular in the 19th century

Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Fred is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Fred for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Therefore, Fred is one of the 442 boys' names, that have been given to newborn sons every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Fred is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: Placed at #14 Fred has never been more popular than back in 1885.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Fred was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Fred -
well known in all states of the USA, most popular in Mississippi

There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Fred is one of them. However, Fred is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Mississippi seem to particularly fancy this name – the 6,568 men called Fred who live here are 0,328% of all male residents and push their name up to #62 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Mississippi. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 296,614 people with the name Fred. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Fred on position 110 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Fred has 4 letters 
and begins with an F

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With four letters, the name Fred is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.

Other names with 
F, r, e and d

If you take all the letters in the name Fred – F, r, e and d – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ferd or Derf.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Fred

If your name is Fred and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Fred

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Fred, you can simply say:

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This is how the name Fred is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Fred in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Fred

Fred

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Fred

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Fred is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

F
R
E
D

Have you ever waved the name Fred

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

F
R
E
D

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Fred sounds like this: