boys:
8.4k births since 1881
#1285 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.4k births since 1881
#2954 (62nd percentile)
The name Fredric is the #2,954 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,365 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 61.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,285 (72.0% percentile) for all time with 8,365 births since 1881.
Fredric first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for boys in 1881). Birth data for Fredric is available in 126 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Fredric reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 33.6% percentile (ranked #378) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 158 births per million (ranked 30.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Fredric ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 4.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fredric".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Fredric is pronounced as FREH-drihk, which has 2 syllables.
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