Given name & surname

Fredo

Fredo is a masculine given name from Italian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Fredo comes from Italian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Fredo through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1985
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Fredo in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1985–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 299 as a first name in 2020; 323 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Fredo’s family of names

Fredo may belong to the same name family as FREDDO. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Fredo’s family in the name graph

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

See also 1

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

People named Fredo

Characters named Fredo: Fredo Corleone (The Godfather series).

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Appears in

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Sibling ideas

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