girls:
1.1k births since 1908
#4611 (19th percentile)
boys:
264.6k births since 1880
#138 (97th percentile)
overall:
265.7k births since 1880
#298 (96th percentile)
The name Frederick is the #298 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 265,700 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #138 (97.0% percentile) for all time with 264,595 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,611 (19.3% percentile) for all time with 1,105 births since 1908.
Frederick has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1908 for girls).
The name Frederick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Frederick reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 90.3% percentile (ranked #51) with 3,602 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 4,245 births per million (ranked 82.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Frederick ranks #449 for boys (50.8% percentile) with 325 births per million, which is 7.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Frederick reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #720) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 18 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Frederick".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Frederick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.6% confident that Frederick is pronounced as FREH-der-ihk, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FREH-drihk, at 29.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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