The name Frederick is the English form of an Old German name meaning ‘peaceful ruler’, composed of ‘fridu’ for ‘peace’ and ‘rih’ for ‘ruler, king’.
Frederick is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Frederick isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Frederick ranks 474. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Frederick. In the entire USA, approximately 246,851 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Frederick. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
The name Frederick is the English form of an Old German name meaning ‘peaceful ruler’, composed of ‘fridu’ for ‘peace’ and ‘rih’ for ‘ruler, king’.
The name was... quite popular in the 19th century, since then it has been steadily declining in popularity.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Frederick is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Frederick for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Therefore, Frederick is one of the 442 boys' names, that have been given to newborn sons every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Frederick is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: Placed at #33 Frederick has never been more popular than back in 1880.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Frederick was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 645 babies were named Frederick in the USA in 2022, ranking it #452 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2009, when it was only ranked at #520 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics - back then 491 boys were named Frederick.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Frederick is one of them. However, Frederick is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Massachusetts seem to particularly fancy this name – the 14,670 men called Frederick who live here are 0,358% of all male residents and push their name up to #57 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Massachusetts. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 246,851 people with the name Frederick. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Frederick on position 140 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With nine letters, the name Frederick is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.
If your name is Frederick and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Frederick, you can simply say:
Fox
Rocket
Elephant
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Koala
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Frederick
Frederick
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
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D
E
R
I
C
K
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
R
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D
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R
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C
K
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Frederick sounds like this:
