Freddy (given name)

Freddy or Freddie is a diminutive form of the given names Frederick, Alfred and others for men and Freda, Frederica and others for women. Freddie has increased in popularity in England since 2008 and in 2012 it was 37th most popular name for a boy. It is also occasionally a nickname.

People

In sports

• Freddy Adu (born 1989), American soccer player
• Freddie Bishop III (born 1990), American football player
• Freddie Brown (American football) (born 1986), American wide receiver
• Fred Brown (basketball) (born 1948), American former National Basketball Association player known as "Downtown Freddie Brown"
• Freddie Brown (cricketer) (1910–1991), former cricketer and cricket commentator
• Freddie Brown (footballer) (1878–1939), footballer for Stoke and West Bromwich Albion
• Freddie Calthorpe (1892–1935), English cricketer
• Freddie Coleman (born 1991), Scottish cricketer
• Freddy Fernández (actor) (1934–1995), Mexican actor
• Freddy Fernández (footballer) (born 1974), Costa Rican footballer
• Brad Fittler (born 1972), Australian rugby league player nicknamed "Freddy"
• Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer nicknamed "Freddie"
• Freddie Fox (footballer) (1898–1968), English football goalkeeper
• Freddie Fox (jockey) (1888–1945), British horse racing jockey
• Freddie Freeman (born 1989), American-Canadian baseball player
• Freddie Frith (1909–1988), British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion
• Freddy Stephen Fuller, 1960s Canadian amateur boxing champion
• Freddy García (born 1976), Venezuelan who pitched for several Major League Baseball teams
• Freddie Garcia (born 1952), Mexican-American soccer player
• Freddy García (infielder) (born 1972), baseball infielder
• Freddy García (football manager) (born 1959), Peruvian football manager
• Freddy García (footballer) (born 1977), Guatemalan footballer
• Alfredo Razon Gonzalez (born 1978), Filipino football player nicknamed "Freddy"
• Freddy González (born 1977), Venezuelan long-distance runner
• Fredy González (born 1975), Colombian road racing cyclist
• Freddie Goss, American basketball coach
• Freddie Kitchens (born 1974), American football coach
• Freddy Leach (1897–1981), American Major League Baseball player
• Freddie Martino (born 1991), American football player
• Freddie Miller (boxer) (1911–1962), American boxer
• Freddie Miller (rugby league), British rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s
• Freddy Moncada (born 1973), Colombian retired road cyclist
• Freddy Montaña (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist
• Freddie Joe Nunn (born 1962), American former National Football League player
• Freddie Pethard (born 1950), Scottish retired footballer
• Freddie Roach (boxing) (born 1960), American boxing trainer and former professional boxer
• Freddy Rodríguez (baseball) (1924–2009), former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Freddy Rodriguez (cyclist) (born 1973), American professional road racing cyclist
• "Freddie" Fred Rodriguez (born 1973), American road racing cyclist
• Freddy Sanchez (born 1977), American retired Major League Baseball player
• Freddie Solomon (1953–2012), American National Football League player
• Freddie Solomon (American football, born 1972), American retired National Football League player
• Freddie Spencer (born 1961), American former world champion motorcycle racer
• Freddie Steele (1912–1984), American world middleweight boxing champion and actor
• Freddie Steele (footballer) (1916–1976), English footballer and manager
• Freddie Summers (born 1947), American National Football League player
• Freddy Vargas (born 1982), Venezuelan road cyclist
• Freddie Williams (speedway rider) (1926–2013), motorcycle speedway world champion
• Freddie Williams (athlete) (born 1962), Canadian track and field runner

Artists and entertainers

• Freddie Aguilar (born 1953), Filipino singer-songwriter and musician
• Freddie Bell (1931–2008), American musician, founder of the vocal group Freddie Bell and the Bellboys
• Freddy Beras-Goico (1940–2010), Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality
• Freddie Brown (musician) (1940–2002), American musician
• Freddy Cannon (born 1936), American rock and roll singer
• Freddy Cole (born 1931), American jazz singer and pianist, brother of Nat King Cole
• Freddie Fisher (musician) (1904–1967), American musician
• Freddie Fox (actor) (born 1989), English actor
• Freddie Garrity (1936–2006), British singer and actor, frontman of the pop band Freddie and the Dreamers
• Freddie Green (1911–1987), American swing jazz guitarist
• Freddie Hart (1926–2018), stage name of Frederick Segrest, American country musician and songwriter
• Freddie Hubbard (1938–2008), American jazz trumpeter
• Freddie King (1934–1976), American blues guitarist and singer
• Freddy Martin (1906–1983), American bandleader and tenor saxophonist
• Freddie Mercury (1946–1991), Zanzibarian-born musician, lead singer of the British rock band Queen
• Freddie Miller (broadcaster) (1929–1992), broadcaster and television personality in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Freddie Prinze (1954–1977), American actor and stand-up comedian
• Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor, son of the above
• Freddy Quinn or simply "Freddy" (born 1931), Austrian singer and actor
• Freddie Roach (organist) (1931–1980), American soul jazz musician
• Freddy Rodriguez (actor) (born 1975), American actor
• Freddy Rodríguez (artist) (born 1945), Dominican Republic artist in the United States
• Freddie Smith (born 1988), American actor
• Freddie Starr (born 1943), English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor born Frederick Leslie Fowell
• Freddie Stone (born 1947), American co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist of the band Sly and the Family Stone
• Freddie Washington (bassist), jazz-influenced bass guitarist
• Freddie Washington (pianist), American jazz pianist
• Freddy Wexler (born 1986), American producer, songwriter and entrepreneur
• Freddie Williams II (born 1977), comics artist
• Freddie Young (1902–1998), British cinematographer
• Freddie (born 1990), alias of Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári, Hungarian singer

Politicians and businesspeople

• Freddy de Ruiter (born 1969), Norwegian politician
• Freddy Heineken (1923–2002), Dutch businessman, chairman of the board and CEO of the Heineken brewing company
• Freddie M. Garcia (born 1944), Filipino business executive
• Freddie Rodriguez, American politician who assumed office in 2013

Others

• Freddy Deeb (born 1955), Lebanese-born American professional poker player
• Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez (1946–1968), United States Marine Corps sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor, nicknamed "Freddy"
• Freddie Oversteegen (1925–2018), Dutch assassin during World War II.
• Freddy Rouhani (born 1963 or 1964), Iranian-born American professional poker player
• Frederic Calland Williams (1911–1977), English engineer sometimes known as Freddie Williams
• Freddie Williams (businessman) (1942–2008), Scottish bookmaker

Fictional characters

• Freddy Auratus, a golden hamster from The Golden Hamster Saga, written by Dietlof Reiche
• Freddie Benson (iCarly), from iCarly
• Freddie Falcon, official mascot of the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons
• Freddie and Frieda Falcon, mascots of Bowling Green State University
• Freddie Fear, in his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano
• Freddy Freeman or Captain Marvel Jr., currently a DC Comics hero
• Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo), in the Scooby Doo series
• Freddy Krueger, a killer in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series and other films
• Freddie McClair, from Skins
• Freddie Roscoe, in the UK soap opera Hollyoaks
• Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington, in the television series Welcome Back, Kotter
• Freddy (weather), a cartoon weatherman in Hong Kong
• Freddy the Pig, in a series of children's books written by Walter R. Brooks
• Freddy Fazbear, in the game Five Nights at Freddy's by Scott Cawthon

See also

• Fredi (disambiguation)
• Federico
• Fred (disambiguation)
• Freddo
• Frédéric
• Frederick (given name)
• Frederico
• Fredrik
• Fredro
• Friedrich (given name)
• Fryderyk (disambiguation)