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Frederick
Pronounced /ˈfɹɛd(ə)ɹɪk/
Rank in 2024
#423
Born in 2024
741
Peak year
1951 · #78
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 741 boys were named Frederick, about 1 in every 2,315.
- It peaked in 1951 with 4,984 babies, ranked #78.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 265,324 boys have been named Frederick since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Frederick per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.2Greatest1901–27
- 2.6Silent1928–45
- 2.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.6Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 52,839 babies, 3.16 per 1,000. Silent: 53,278 babies, 2.58 per 1,000. Boomers: 78,947 babies, 2.10 per 1,000. Gen X: 36,572 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Millennials: 18,188 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,221 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,262 babies, 0.33 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From German Friedrich, Friederich and influenced by Latin Friderīcus, Frederīcus, from Old High German Fridurih, from Frankish *Friþurīk, from Proto-Germanic *Friþurīks, from *friþuz (“peace”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”), literally “peace king, peaceful ruler”.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈfɹɛd(ə)ɹɪk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Frederick, CC BY-SA 4.0.