View Message

Searching this site for F*r*d* gives lots of potential full names.

I knew two women (unrelated and of different ages). Their names were Frith and Freya. Both of them went by Fred/Freddie because they were sick of correcting people's pronunciation of their name.

Maybe it could be for Frieda if she's a tomboy. Also, Freddie Mercury's birth name was Faroukh.

You could perhaps make a creative variant of Fareed by turning it into Faredd or something, which you could then contract and diminutise into Freddy.

Not exactly the best sounding one but I hope I was helpful

Fredemund, Fredard, Fredred, Fredebald, Fredebold, Fredemar, Fredewulf. Fredeswidus, Fredeswind, Fredegund, Fredehelm, Frederinc etc.

---

The standard form in OE is Frithu-, commonly Latinized on the Frankish model as Frede-, e.g. Fredegarius, Fredegardus, Fredegisus etc. They run to several pages in the Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonum. Similarly this prototheme (with it's dialect variants) runs to 11 pages in the Altdeutsches Namenbuch. if we count each variant of the same name only once, AND combine the masculine and feminine versions, there are still around 160 names beginning Frede-, and more than 360 ending in -fred (and that doesn't count Lombard names combining "fred" with a Latin element, or Vandal names combining "fred" with an Alan (a western Iranian language of the steppes) element).

This message was edited 12/20/2018, 5:19 AM

Uhh there's Elfreda / Elfriede (f) pronounced like El+Frida but it's kind of a stretch

Names with Fred as an initial syllable included Fredenand and Frediano, found on this site.

---

My German name dictionary ("Knaurs Vornamenbuch") includes the male names Fredegar and Fredel and the female names Fredegard and the related set of Fredegonda, Fredegonde, Fredegund, Fredegunde, and Fredegundis.

This message was edited 12/12/2018, 8:23 AM