Meaning not yet researched.
Fredric: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #421 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #421 in 1943; #5,946 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fredric in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,946 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #421.
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Fredric: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #421 in 1943 · most boys in one year: 223 (1947).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Fredric, making it the 5,946th most common boys’ name of the year, up 52 places from #5,998 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 15 boys named Fredric in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #421, reached in 1943. The most boys given the name in a single year was 223, in 1947. For comparison, it was #7,230 in 2015 and #460 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fredric in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 8,395 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,887 babies named Fredric.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 138 US boys were named Fredric; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fredrick (64,782 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 Fredric 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 | — | — | 15 | #5,946 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #5,998 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,308 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #5,957 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,261 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,798 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #6,915 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,470 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,430 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #5,876 |
| 2015 | — | — | 11 | #7,230 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,413 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,244 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,096 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,356 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,829 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #6,939 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,864 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,408 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #5,882 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,530 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,256 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,996 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,700 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,088 |
| 2000 | — | — | 17 | #4,456 |
| 1999 | — | — | 22 | #3,513 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,531 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,389 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,455 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,353 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,716 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,547 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,038 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,362 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,025 |
| 1989 | — | — | 31 | #2,215 |
| 1988 | — | — | 29 | #2,162 |
| 1987 | — | — | 19 | #2,758 |
| 1986 | — | — | 28 | #2,069 |
| 1985 | — | — | 30 | #1,932 |
| 1984 | — | — | 32 | #1,774 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,795 |
| 1982 | — | — | 36 | #1,661 |
| 1981 | — | — | 33 | #1,739 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,602 |
| 1979 | — | — | 52 | #1,278 |
| 1978 | — | — | 41 | #1,459 |
| 1977 | — | — | 50 | #1,258 |
| 1976 | — | — | 43 | #1,363 |
| 1975 | — | — | 51 | #1,186 |
| 1974 | — | — | 41 | #1,338 |
| 1973 | — | — | 71 | #958 |
| 1972 | — | — | 69 | #980 |
| 1971 | — | — | 79 | #916 |
| 1970 | — | — | 70 | #962 |
| 1969 | — | — | 70 | #913 |
| 1968 | — | — | 72 | #857 |
| 1967 | — | — | 81 | #808 |
| 1966 | — | — | 66 | #891 |
| 1965 | — | — | 90 | #780 |
| 1964 | — | — | 93 | #782 |
| 1963 | — | — | 90 | #800 |
| 1962 | — | — | 95 | #781 |
| 1961 | — | — | 102 | #763 |
| 1960 | — | — | 109 | #739 |
| 1959 | — | — | 133 | #662 |
| 1958 | — | — | 116 | #698 |
| 1957 | — | — | 142 | #645 |
| 1956 | — | — | 153 | #613 |
| 1955 | — | — | 180 | #549 |
| 1954 | — | — | 173 | #556 |
| 1953 | — | — | 186 | #517 |
| 1952 | — | — | 207 | #489 |
| 1951 | — | — | 177 | #512 |
| 1950 | — | — | 208 | #460 |
| 1949 | — | — | 194 | #472 |
| 1948 | — | — | 201 | #472 |
| 1947 | — | — | 223 | #450 |
| 1946 | — | — | 199 | #451 |
| 1945 | — | — | 196 | #427 |
| 1944 | — | — | 142 | #509 |
| 1943 | — | — | 218 | #421 |
| 1942 | — | — | 200 | #436 |
| 1941 | — | — | 169 | #453 |
| 1940 | — | — | 145 | #478 |
| 1939 | — | — | 179 | #424 |
| 1938 | — | — | 163 | #452 |
| 1937 | — | — | 170 | #435 |
| 1936 | — | — | 150 | #462 |
| 1935 | — | — | 167 | #437 |
| 1934 | — | — | 138 | #489 |
| 1933 | — | — | 127 | #499 |
| 1932 | — | — | 101 | #588 |
| 1931 | — | — | 91 | #625 |
| 1930 | — | — | 72 | #750 |
| 1929 | — | — | 68 | #781 |
| 1928 | — | — | 57 | #883 |
| 1927 | — | — | 42 | #1,103 |
| 1926 | — | — | 58 | #880 |
| 1925 | — | — | 52 | #936 |
| 1924 | — | — | 59 | #909 |
| 1923 | — | — | 48 | #1,014 |
| 1922 | — | — | 62 | #876 |
| 1921 | — | — | 70 | #817 |
| 1920 | — | — | 61 | #880 |
| 1919 | — | — | 57 | #883 |
| 1918 | — | — | 76 | #741 |
| 1917 | — | — | 82 | #660 |
| 1916 | — | — | 65 | #762 |
| 1915 | — | — | 79 | #656 |
| 1914 | — | — | 50 | #748 |
| 1913 | — | — | 32 | #860 |
| 1912 | — | — | 31 | #788 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #1,002 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,477 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,345 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,276 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,147 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,118 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,199 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,102 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #990 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #741 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #962 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #990 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #874 |
| 1881 | — | — | 7 | #736 |
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).