Fredrik
Fredrik was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,459 among boys’ names; 525 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fredrik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fredrik mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Fredrik is “a male given name”
From Old Swedish Fredherik, of Germanic origin, cognate with English Frederick. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1311.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fredrik?
#5,459 among boys’ names, 2025
Fredrik rose from #6,448 in 2015 to #5,459 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 10.0 per million.
28 babies in 2020, the peak
Fredrik peaked in 2020, when 28 boys were given it, #3,750 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,459 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,734 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,937 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,091 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,822 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,750 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,642 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,645 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,798 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,773 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,448 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,409 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,058 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,728 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,284 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,057 | 4.2 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,217 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,250 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,658 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,842 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,937 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,454 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,662 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,138 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,248 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,100 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,760 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,781 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,685 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,080 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,598 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,066 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,354 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,220 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,968 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,714 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,690 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,664 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,346 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,115 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,144 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,921 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,780 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,458 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,736 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,900 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,670 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,068 | 7.4 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,917 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,137 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,503 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,340 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,245 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,713 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,718 | 4.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,593 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fredrik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fredrik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fredrik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fredrik, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Fredrik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 6 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 736 people named Fredrik (2 women and girls, 734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 364 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 357,116 babies since 1880, Fredrik is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 925 babies (1.8%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Fredrik
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 Fredrik and names like it
- Compare Fredrik and FrederickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFredrik peaked in 2020.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fredrik since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Fredrik: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Fredrik.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fredrik alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.