Meaning not yet researched.
Frederic: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #302 in 1885.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #302 in 1885; #2,953 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Frederic in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,953 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1885, at #302.
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Frederic: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #302 in 1885 · most boys in one year: 299 (1947).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Frederic, making it the 2,953rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 68 places from #2,885 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 44 boys named Frederic in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #302, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 299, in 1947. For comparison, it was #2,988 in 2015 and #432 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Frederic in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 22 babies with the name. In all, 14,440 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 2,456 babies named Frederic.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 399 US boys were named Frederic; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fred (345,684 babies since 1880), Frederick (267,165 babies since 1880) and Federico (8,976 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Frederic in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 42 | #2,953 |
| 2024 | — | — | 44 | #2,885 |
| 2023 | — | — | 40 | #3,076 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,361 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,933 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,294 |
| 2019 | — | — | 38 | #3,118 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,263 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,609 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,903 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,988 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,726 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,787 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,254 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,925 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,732 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,201 |
| 2008 | — | — | 32 | #3,444 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,397 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,104 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,726 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,971 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,218 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,571 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,758 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,266 |
| 1999 | — | — | 41 | #2,242 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,246 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,898 |
| 1996 | — | — | 56 | #1,694 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,114 |
| 1994 | — | — | 41 | #2,025 |
| 1993 | — | — | 44 | #1,878 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,787 |
| 1991 | — | — | 48 | #1,709 |
| 1990 | — | — | 47 | #1,710 |
| 1989 | — | — | 62 | #1,394 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,744 |
| 1987 | — | — | 50 | #1,446 |
| 1986 | — | — | 66 | #1,166 |
| 1985 | — | — | 56 | #1,286 |
| 1984 | — | — | 49 | #1,356 |
| 1983 | — | — | 67 | #1,089 |
| 1982 | — | — | 57 | #1,237 |
| 1981 | — | — | 63 | #1,159 |
| 1980 | — | — | 66 | #1,114 |
| 1979 | — | — | 95 | #897 |
| 1978 | — | — | 55 | #1,207 |
| 1977 | — | — | 79 | #965 |
| 1976 | — | — | 75 | #965 |
| 1975 | — | — | 64 | #1,032 |
| 1974 | — | — | 98 | #815 |
| 1973 | — | — | 93 | #825 |
| 1972 | — | — | 87 | #861 |
| 1971 | — | — | 135 | #711 |
| 1970 | — | — | 145 | #688 |
| 1969 | — | — | 129 | #698 |
| 1968 | — | — | 135 | #649 |
| 1967 | — | — | 135 | #641 |
| 1966 | — | — | 116 | #687 |
| 1965 | — | — | 142 | #634 |
| 1964 | — | — | 136 | #664 |
| 1963 | — | — | 127 | #689 |
| 1962 | — | — | 139 | #658 |
| 1961 | — | — | 144 | #654 |
| 1960 | — | — | 143 | #652 |
| 1959 | — | — | 152 | #628 |
| 1958 | — | — | 186 | #566 |
| 1957 | — | — | 188 | #563 |
| 1956 | — | — | 214 | #516 |
| 1955 | — | — | 224 | #491 |
| 1954 | — | — | 225 | #480 |
| 1953 | — | — | 229 | #466 |
| 1952 | — | — | 276 | #416 |
| 1951 | — | — | 241 | #435 |
| 1950 | — | — | 238 | #432 |
| 1949 | — | — | 271 | #410 |
| 1948 | — | — | 255 | #420 |
| 1947 | — | — | 299 | #397 |
| 1946 | — | — | 288 | #386 |
| 1945 | — | — | 224 | #401 |
| 1944 | — | — | 208 | #419 |
| 1943 | — | — | 245 | #389 |
| 1942 | — | — | 257 | #380 |
| 1941 | — | — | 212 | #400 |
| 1940 | — | — | 197 | #412 |
| 1939 | — | — | 207 | #393 |
| 1938 | — | — | 221 | #379 |
| 1937 | — | — | 192 | #407 |
| 1936 | — | — | 175 | #421 |
| 1935 | — | — | 142 | #477 |
| 1934 | — | — | 185 | #410 |
| 1933 | — | — | 175 | #410 |
| 1932 | — | — | 141 | #482 |
| 1931 | — | — | 141 | #480 |
| 1930 | — | — | 163 | #465 |
| 1929 | — | — | 165 | #458 |
| 1928 | — | — | 144 | #504 |
| 1927 | — | — | 167 | #470 |
| 1926 | — | — | 169 | #462 |
| 1925 | — | — | 157 | #484 |
| 1924 | — | — | 174 | #468 |
| 1923 | — | — | 180 | #454 |
| 1922 | — | — | 169 | #475 |
| 1921 | — | — | 202 | #428 |
| 1920 | — | — | 193 | #434 |
| 1919 | — | — | 151 | #485 |
| 1918 | — | — | 202 | #413 |
| 1917 | — | — | 218 | #383 |
| 1916 | — | — | 202 | #390 |
| 1915 | — | — | 240 | #343 |
| 1914 | — | — | 173 | #358 |
| 1913 | — | — | 134 | #360 |
| 1912 | — | — | 118 | #349 |
| 1911 | — | — | 40 | #462 |
| 1910 | — | — | 44 | #399 |
| 1909 | — | — | 31 | #456 |
| 1908 | — | — | 31 | #430 |
| 1907 | — | — | 15 | #678 |
| 1906 | — | — | 19 | #528 |
| 1905 | — | — | 29 | #396 |
| 1904 | — | — | 16 | #574 |
| 1903 | — | — | 19 | #491 |
| 1902 | — | — | 18 | #513 |
| 1901 | — | — | 16 | #495 |
| 1900 | — | — | 10 | #863 |
| 1899 | — | — | 22 | #395 |
| 1898 | — | — | 26 | #386 |
| 1897 | — | — | 29 | #347 |
| 1896 | — | — | 17 | #509 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #564 |
| 1894 | — | — | 16 | #507 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #723 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #706 |
| 1891 | — | — | 16 | #447 |
| 1890 | — | — | 21 | #395 |
| 1889 | — | — | 23 | #374 |
| 1888 | — | — | 19 | #433 |
| 1887 | — | — | 20 | #370 |
| 1886 | — | — | 13 | #520 |
| 1885 | — | — | 32 | #302 |
| 1884 | — | — | 26 | #347 |
| 1883 | — | — | 20 | #385 |
| 1882 | — | — | 25 | #358 |
| 1881 | — | — | 13 | #491 |
| 1880 | — | — | 22 | #365 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).