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Freeman
Recorded 10,996 times in US records since 1880. Peak year: 1918.
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U.S. rank · 2025
1 in 127,513
U.S. · 2025 records
Extraordinary
rarity tier
≈4,300
alive today (estimate) ⓘ
→ steady
10-yr trend
How many Freemans are there?

Alive in the US today estimate

Roughly 4,300 Freemans are alive in the US today, we estimate. About 1 in 79,000 Americans.

Made from recorded births by year and sex, multiplied by survival to today's age (SSA life table). It can't see immigration, and it's an estimate, not a census: how the living estimate is made.

Popularity over time

Freeman through the years, 1880–2025

1918 · 229 229 0
18802025
Peak Freeman year: 1918 (ringed), with 229 recorded. Current usage: ~100% boys. counts of people issued a Social Security number, not a full count of births.
History in print

Freeman in the wild, 1856

Freeman reads like a surname now, and in old print it usually is one, so the search has to prove the first name. This one is proven. Freeman Hunt, founding editor of the Merchants’ Magazine, put out a book of business maxims in 1856, and its copyright page spells the claim out:

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by FREEMAN HUNT Freeman Hunt, Worth and Wealth (1856)public domain

The records keep Freeman modest and steady: never more than 229 in a year (that was 1918), with roughly 4,300 alive in the US today, we estimate.

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Every figure on this page is computed from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names data (ssa.gov), and the living estimate uses the SSA actuarial life table: how we calculate this. Data through 2025; refreshed Jun 2026; living estimate as of 2026.