Fremont
Fremont or Frémont is a surname and male given name. Notable people with the name include:
Meaning & Origin of Fremont
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Fremont or Frémont is a surname and male given name. Notable people with the name include:
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The Story of Fremont
The earliest SSA record of Fremont as a baby boy name dates back to 1882, when 5 babies received it. 1920 was its biggest year on record, with 27 newborns named Fremont — #1,416 in the national rankings. About 34% of every Fremont on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Fremont last appeared in the published SSA data in 1971, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 482 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
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About the name Fremont
Fremont is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1882 and has accumulated 482 births in the dataset. Fremont's peak popularity came in 1920 when it ranked #1,416. Use the chart and map above to compare Fremont's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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