Fread Popularity by Year

Follow Fread across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Fread birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1953	Boys	5	#3,798	Down 500 places
1949	Boys	6	#3,298	Down 555 places
1945	Boys	7	#2,743	Down 110 places
1944	Boys	8	#2,633	Up 905 places
1943	Boys	5	#3,538	Down 598 places
1942	Boys	7	#2,940	Up 193 places
1941	Boys	6	#3,133	Down 845 places
1939	Boys	10	#2,288	Up 1,246 places
1938	Boys	5	#3,534	Down 1,542 places
1937	Boys	13	#1,992	Up 727 places
1935	Boys	8	#2,719	Up 960 places
1934	Boys	5	#3,679	Down 830 places
1932	Boys	8	#2,849	Down 198 places
1931	Boys	9	#2,651	Down 358 places
1930	Boys	12	#2,293	Down 724 places
1928	Boys	23	#1,569	Up 624 places
1927	Boys	14	#2,193	Up 109 places
1926	Boys	13	#2,302	Up 853 places
1925	Boys	8	#3,155	Down 682 places
1924	Boys	12	#2,473	Down 249 places
1923	Boys	14	#2,224	Down 184 places
1922	Boys	16	#2,040	Up 946 places
1921	Boys	9	#2,986	Down 19 places
1920	Boys	9	#2,967	Up 148 places
1919	Boys	8	#3,115	Down 717 places
1918	Boys	12	#2,398	Up 164 places
1917	Boys	10	#2,562	Down 19 places
1916	Boys	10	#2,543	Down 85 places
1915	Boys	10	#2,458	Up 193 places
1914	Boys	7	#2,651	Down 559 places
1913	Boys	8	#2,092	Down 899 places
1910	Boys	8	#1,193	Up 247 places
1909	Boys	5	#1,440	Down 95 places
1907	Boys	5	#1,345	Down 341 places
1906	Boys	7	#1,004	Up 60 places
1904	Boys	6	#1,064	—