girls:
255 births since 1929
#5461 (4th percentile)
boys:
64.3k births since 1880
#415 (91st percentile)
overall:
64.6k births since 1880
#917 (88th percentile)
The name Fredrick is the #917 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 64,580 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #415 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 64,325 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,461 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 255 births since 1929.
Fredrick has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1929 for girls).
The name Fredrick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Fredrick reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 69.4% percentile (ranked #186) with 670 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 870 births per million (ranked 45.1% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Fredrick ranks #809 for boys (11.2% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Fredrick reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #732) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fredrick".
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 "Fredrick", 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 found one way to pronounce the name Fredrick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Fredrick is pronounced as FREH-drihk, which has 2 syllables.
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