boys:
14.3k births since 1880
#974 (79th percentile)
overall:
14.3k births since 1880
#2190 (72nd percentile)
The name Frederic is the #2,190 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,327 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 71.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #974 (78.8% percentile) for all time with 14,327 births since 1880.
Frederic has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Frederic reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 39.4% percentile (ranked #305) with 272 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 276 births per million (ranked 12.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Frederic ranks #876 for boys (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 7.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Frederic".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Frederick. View all variations of Frederick.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Frederic", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Frederick" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Frederick..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Frederic. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Frederic is pronounced as FREH-der-ihk, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FREH-drihk, at 36.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like F R EH1 D ER0 IH0 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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