Frederick
Frederick was given to 728 boys in 2025, #435 among boys’ names; 267,165 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 129,000 Americans named Frederick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 44 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Frederick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Frederick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Frederick is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.” Its etymology gives the senses “peace” (*friþuz) and “king, ruler” (*rīks) and “peace king, peaceful ruler” (literally).
From German Friedrich, Friederich and influenced by Latin Friderīcus, Frederīcus, from Old High German Fridurih, from Frankish *Friþurīk, from Proto-Germanic *Friþurīks, from *friþuz (“peace”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”), literally “peace king, peaceful ruler”.
/ˈfɹɛd(ə)ɹɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Frederick?
#435 among boys’ names, 2025
Frederick rose from #515 in 2015 to #435 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.29 to 0.43 per 1,000.
4,997 babies in 1952, the peak
Frederick peaked in 1952, when 4,997 babies were given it (4,979 boys, #76 among boys’ names). The 728 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 728 | #435 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 747 | #422 | 0.43 |
| 2023 | 596 | #507 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 648 | #478 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 629 | #476 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 613 | #484 | 0.36 |
| 2019 | 615 | #476 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 575 | #499 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 581 | #500 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 583 | #512 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 558 | #515 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 567 | #496 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 556 | #492 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 488 | #535 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 472 | #541 | 0.25 |
| 2010 | 527 | #493 | 0.27 |
| 2009 | 491 | #538 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 521 | #521 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 484 | #531 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 556 | #476 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 569 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 581 | #447 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 587 | #432 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 580 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 614 | #408 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 647 | #395 | 0.33 |
| 1999 | 673 | #384 | 0.35 |
| 1998 | 720 | #362 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 711 | #356 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 809 | #324 | 0.43 |
| 1995 | 830 | #316 | 0.44 |
| 1994 | 903 | #299 | 0.47 |
| 1993 | 948 | #292 | 0.48 |
| 1992 | 1,038 | #275 | 0.52 |
| 1991 | 1,135 | #246 | 0.56 |
| 1990 | 1,076 | #252 | 0.52 |
| 1989 | 1,114 | #238 | 0.56 |
| 1988 | 1,179 | #219 | 0.62 |
| 1987 | 1,170 | #213 | 0.63 |
| 1986 | 1,269 | #198 | 0.69 |
| 1985 | 1,224 | #197 | 0.66 |
| 1984 | 1,221 | #197 | 0.68 |
| 1983 | 1,437 | #179 | 0.80 |
| 1982 | 1,365 | #186 | 0.75 |
| 1981 | 1,471 | #170 | 0.82 |
| 1980 | 1,606 | #161 | 0.90 |
| 1979 | 1,639 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 1,533 | #158 | 0.93 |
| 1977 | 1,627 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 1,731 | #145 | 1.1 |
| 1975 | 1,786 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1974 | 1,928 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 1973 | 2,183 | #120 | 1.4 |
| 1972 | 2,438 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 2,973 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1970 | 2,887 | #115 | 1.6 |
| 1969 | 2,772 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1968 | 2,610 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 1967 | 2,815 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1966 | 2,884 | #109 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 3,154 | #106 | 1.7 |
| 1964 | 3,357 | #105 | 1.7 |
| 1963 | 3,127 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 1962 | 3,257 | #116 | 1.6 |
| 1961 | 3,315 | #117 | 1.6 |
| 1960 | 3,477 | #114 | 1.6 |
| 1959 | 3,550 | #114 | 1.7 |
| 1958 | 3,640 | #110 | 1.7 |
| 1957 | 4,010 | #99 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 4,306 | #91 | 2.0 |
| 1955 | 4,552 | #86 | 2.2 |
| 1954 | 4,743 | #83 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 4,865 | #80 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 4,979 | #76 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 4,984 | #78 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 4,659 | #75 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 4,748 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 4,516 | #75 | 2.6 |
| 1947 | 4,637 | #78 | 2.5 |
| 1946 | 4,231 | #75 | 2.6 |
| 1945 | 3,437 | #77 | 2.6 |
| 1944 | 3,583 | #73 | 2.6 |
| 1943 | 3,840 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 3,738 | #68 | 2.7 |
| 1941 | 3,288 | #69 | 2.7 |
| 1940 | 3,096 | #68 | 2.7 |
| 1939 | 2,972 | #71 | 2.7 |
| 1938 | 2,935 | #71 | 2.6 |
| 1937 | 2,878 | #68 | 2.7 |
| 1936 | 2,817 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1935 | 2,582 | #73 | 2.5 |
| 1934 | 2,431 | #77 | 2.4 |
| 1933 | 2,321 | #78 | 2.3 |
| 1932 | 2,501 | #73 | 2.4 |
| 1931 | 2,471 | #73 | 2.4 |
| 1930 | 2,694 | #74 | 2.5 |
| 1929 | 2,813 | #67 | 2.6 |
| 1928 | 2,882 | #67 | 2.6 |
| 1927 | 3,048 | #64 | 2.7 |
| 1926 | 3,120 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1925 | 3,088 | #65 | 2.8 |
| 1924 | 3,279 | #62 | 2.9 |
| 1923 | 3,278 | #60 | 3.0 |
| 1922 | 3,353 | #60 | 3.1 |
| 1921 | 3,376 | #61 | 3.1 |
| 1920 | 3,275 | #60 | 3.1 |
| 1919 | 2,932 | #64 | 3.0 |
| 1918 | 3,351 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1917 | 3,455 | #51 | 3.7 |
| 1916 | 3,325 | #52 | 3.7 |
| 1915 | 3,159 | #52 | 3.7 |
| 1914 | 2,415 | #52 | 3.7 |
| 1913 | 1,996 | #49 | 3.9 |
| 1912 | 1,564 | #51 | 3.6 |
| 1911 | 802 | #52 | 3.5 |
| 1910 | 543 | #69 | 2.8 |
| 1909 | 477 | #64 | 2.9 |
| 1908 | 438 | #68 | 2.8 |
| 1907 | 410 | #68 | 2.8 |
| 1906 | 377 | #67 | 2.8 |
| 1905 | 381 | #67 | 2.9 |
| 1904 | 390 | #63 | 3.0 |
| 1903 | 341 | #63 | 2.9 |
| 1902 | 330 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1901 | 336 | #60 | 3.2 |
| 1900 | 420 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1899 | 350 | #55 | 3.3 |
| 1898 | 368 | #60 | 3.0 |
| 1897 | 369 | #56 | 3.3 |
| 1896 | 381 | #57 | 3.2 |
| 1895 | 406 | #54 | 3.5 |
| 1894 | 413 | #54 | 3.6 |
| 1893 | 432 | #47 | 3.8 |
| 1892 | 453 | #48 | 3.7 |
| 1891 | 412 | #44 | 4.1 |
| 1890 | 410 | #43 | 3.7 |
| 1889 | 451 | #44 | 4.1 |
| 1888 | 496 | #42 | 4.1 |
| 1887 | 464 | #37 | 4.6 |
| 1886 | 461 | #40 | 4.2 |
| 1885 | 466 | #37 | 4.3 |
| 1884 | 454 | #42 | 4.0 |
| 1883 | 438 | #37 | 4.2 |
| 1882 | 457 | #37 | 4.0 |
| 1881 | 433 | #36 | 4.3 |
| 1880 | 483 | #33 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Frederick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Frederick has been given almost only to boys: 1,105 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Frederick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Frederick, and how old are they?
129,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 48% of the 267,165 Americans ever recorded as Frederick. The median Frederick alive today is 61 years old; half are between 44 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 138,927 people named Frederick (162 women and girls, 138,765 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 143,617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11,300 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 51,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 32,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,940 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Frederick born?
The states with the most babies named Frederick are New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 35,186 | #362 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 21,940 | #357 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 14,729 | #293 | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 14,376 | #397 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 13,270 | #366 | 1.0× |
| California | 13,204 | #582 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 12,343 | #420 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 11,836 | #318 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 7,068 | #603 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6,511 | #576 | 1.1× |
Where Frederick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Frederick is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Frederick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 357,250 babies since 1880, Frederick is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 728 of their 925 babies (79%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Frederick
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Frederick and names like it
- Compare Frederick and FredrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sFrederick peaked in 1952.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Frederick since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Frederick: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Frederick.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Frederick alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.