Frederica — girls' name

What the Data Says About Frederica

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,353 babies named Frederica between 1883 and 2023, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Frederica currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 47 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Frederica performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 354 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Frederica shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 191 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Frederica in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Frederica in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,353 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.