Meaning and history
From an English surname meaning “free man,” originally used to denote someone who was not a serf.
20062006: 38 births, rank #2,932
2007: 36 births, rank #3,135
2008: 33 births, rank #3,344
2009: 37 births, rank #3,105
2010: 21 births, rank #4,517
20112011: 31 births, rank #3,434
2012: 30 births, rank #3,530
2013: 35 births, rank #3,122
2014: 35 births, rank #3,154
2015: 27 births, rank #3,882
20162016: 32 births, rank #3,441
2017: 28 births, rank #3,781
2018: 36 births, rank #3,171
2019: 28 births, rank #3,794
2020: 24 births, rank #4,141
20212021: 31 births, rank #3,582
2022: 28 births, rank #3,879
2023: 29 births, rank #3,802
2024: 31 births, rank #3,605
20252025: 26 births, rank #4,050
Freeman rose from #995 to #981 for boys between 1970 and 1971. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 229 births.