Frida (given name)

Last updated March 30, 2025

Frida (with variants Freda, Frieda, Frinta and Freida) is a feminine given name. In central and eastern Europe, Frida is a short form of compound names containing the Germanic element fried meaning "peace".^{[ citation needed ]}

People

Freda

Frida Argento (born 2000), Swedish actress
Freda Betti (1924–1979), French opera singer
Freda Corbet (1900–1993), British politician
Freda Dowie (1928–2019), English actress
Freda Du Faur (1882–1935), Australian mountaineer
Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983), English socialite and mistress of future king Edward VIII
Freda Foh Shen (born 1948), American film, television and theatre actress
Freda Gardner (1929–2020), former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Freda Hoffman Zgodzinski (1914–2012), Anarchist activist
Freda Jackson (1907–1990), British actress
Freda James (1911–1988), British tennis player
Freda Koblick (1920–2011), American acrylic artist and sculptor
Freda Josephine McDonald (1906–1975), American-born French entertainer, known as Joséphine Baker
Freda Payne (born 1942), American singer and actress
Freda Swain (1902–1985), English composer, pianist and music educator
Freda Warrington, British author
Freda Warfield, American politician
Freda Wright-Sorce (1955–2005), American radio broadcaster
Freda L. Wolfson (born 1954), American judge

Freedia

Big Freedia (born 1978), American musician

Frida

Frida Benneche (1880 – after 1943), American coloratura soprano
Frida Felser (1841–1941), German opera singer and actress
Frida Gustavsson (born 1993), Swedish model
Frida Hansdotter (born 1985), Swedish alpine skier
Frida Hyvönen (born 1977), Swedish singer-songwriter
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Mexican painter
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (born 1945), Swedish pop singer and member of ABBA, also known by her mononym Frida
Frida Maanum (born 1999), Norwegian professional footballer
Josefine Frida Pettersen (born 1996) Norwegian actress
Frida Stéenhoff (1865–1945), Swedish writer and feminist
Frida Topno (1925–2018), Indian politician
Frida Westman (born 2001), Swedish ski jumper

Frieda

Frieda Arnold (fl. 1854–fl. 1859), British courtier, dresser (lady's maid) to Queen Victoria of Great Britain.
Frieda Belinfante (1904–1995), Dutch cellist, conductor, prominent lesbian and member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II
Frieda Dänzer (1931–2015), Swiss former Alpine skier
Frieda Hempel (1885–1955), German operatic soprano
Frieda Inescort (1901–1976), Scottish stage and film actress
Frieda Keller (1879–1942), a Swiss murderer
Frieda von Richthofen (1879–1956), German author and wife of the writer D. H. Lawrence
Frieda Zamba (born 1965), American four-time world surfing champion

Freida

Freida Lee Mock, American award-winning filmmaker
Freida Pinto (born 1984), Indian actress and model
Freida J. Riley (1937–1969), American science and math teacher

Fictional characters

Freda, a young Rohirrim in the Lord of the Rings film series
Frieda (Peanuts), a character from the comic strip Peanuts
Frieda, a character in the Adventure Time miniseries "Islands"
Frieda Petrenko, a character from UK TV series Holby City
Frieda Pesky, a character from the TV series The Buzz on Maggie
Frida Suarez, a character from the television series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Frida Villarreal, character in the telenovela Entre el amor y el odio
Frieda, a character from the children's film, Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
Freida "Freddi", a character from the Time Warp Trio book series and the adapted TV series
Frieda Berlin, a character from the television series Orange Is the New Black
Frida, a character from the television series Hilda
Frieda Jason, a character from the Stephen King novel, Carrie
Frieda, a character from the Franz Kafka novel, The Castle
Frieda Reiss, a character from the manga series Attack on Titan and the adapted TV series.

Animals

Frida (dog), Mexican search and rescue dog