Meaning not yet researched.
Fredrick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #126 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #126 in 1880; #1,736 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fredrick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,736 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #126.
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Fredrick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 boys in 2025. Peak: #126 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 1,341 (1953).
In 2025, 94 US boys were named Fredrick, making it the 1,736th most common boys’ name of the year, down 101 places from #1,635 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 104 boys named Fredrick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #126, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,341, in 1953. For comparison, it was #1,219 in 2015 and #190 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fredrick in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 103 babies with the name. In all, 64,782 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 11,390 babies named Fredrick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,211 US boys were named Fredrick; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fredrick ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #532 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Frederick (267,165 babies since 1880) and Fredric (8,395 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Freddrick, Fredrich and Fredreick are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Freddrick (1,177), Fredrich (424), Fredreick (22), Fredreck (6).
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 Fredrick in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 10 | #532 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #647 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #990 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,154 | #936 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,591 | #1,049 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 94 | #1,736 |
| 2024 | — | — | 104 | #1,635 |
| 2023 | — | — | 109 | #1,594 |
| 2022 | — | — | 133 | #1,399 |
| 2021 | — | — | 130 | #1,412 |
| 2020 | — | — | 121 | #1,428 |
| 2019 | — | — | 120 | #1,455 |
| 2018 | — | — | 124 | #1,412 |
| 2017 | — | — | 150 | #1,225 |
| 2016 | — | — | 126 | #1,394 |
| 2015 | — | — | 151 | #1,219 |
| 2014 | — | — | 141 | #1,265 |
| 2013 | — | — | 157 | #1,151 |
| 2012 | — | — | 126 | #1,349 |
| 2011 | — | — | 140 | #1,241 |
| 2010 | — | — | 164 | #1,133 |
| 2009 | — | — | 197 | #998 |
| 2008 | — | — | 165 | #1,113 |
| 2007 | — | — | 214 | #928 |
| 2006 | — | — | 217 | #896 |
| 2005 | — | — | 191 | #920 |
| 2004 | — | — | 227 | #795 |
| 2003 | — | — | 212 | #827 |
| 2002 | — | — | 200 | #834 |
| 2001 | — | — | 224 | #769 |
| 2000 | — | — | 242 | #718 |
| 1999 | — | — | 248 | #681 |
| 1998 | — | — | 295 | #622 |
| 1997 | — | — | 276 | #627 |
| 1996 | — | — | 308 | #584 |
| 1995 | — | — | 354 | #539 |
| 1994 | — | — | 317 | #583 |
| 1993 | — | — | 354 | #545 |
| 1992 | — | — | 398 | #507 |
| 1991 | — | — | 413 | #489 |
| 1990 | — | — | 446 | #468 |
| 1989 | — | — | 434 | #451 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,430 | 373 | #477 |
| 1987 | — | — | 385 | #453 |
| 1986 | — | — | 405 | #429 |
| 1985 | — | — | 505 | #363 |
| 1984 | — | — | 471 | #374 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,806 | 494 | #358 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,595 | 577 | #331 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,396 | 595 | #321 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,966 | 621 | #310 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,887 | 648 | #304 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,888 | 669 | #287 |
| 1977 | — | — | 660 | #295 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,729 | 634 | #294 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,664 | 720 | #268 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,200 | 729 | #263 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,712 | 774 | #254 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,767 | 944 | #228 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,177 | 1,022 | #232 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,985 | 942 | #247 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,609 | 786 | #265 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,888 | 821 | #250 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,909 | 787 | #256 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,032 | 843 | #248 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,605 | 819 | #258 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,179 | 870 | #261 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,943 | 812 | #268 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,474 | 817 | #267 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,062 | 898 | #262 |
| 1960 | — | — | 905 | #263 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,785 | 922 | #263 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,060 | 958 | #252 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,064 | 1,047 | #236 |
| 1956 | — | — | 1,136 | #216 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,169 | #209 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,381 | 1,235 | #201 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,960 | 1,341 | #189 |
| 1952 | — | — | 1,211 | #192 |
| 1951 | — | — | 1,166 | #194 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,924 | 1,162 | #190 |
| 1949 | — | — | 1,032 | #199 |
| 1948 | — | — | 939 | #207 |
| 1947 | — | — | 917 | #211 |
| 1946 | — | — | 845 | #203 |
| 1945 | — | — | 707 | #204 |
| 1944 | — | — | 736 | #203 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,603 | 796 | #202 |
| 1942 | — | — | 789 | #199 |
| 1941 | — | — | 729 | #197 |
| 1940 | — | — | 742 | #191 |
| 1939 | — | — | 629 | #198 |
| 1938 | — | — | 664 | #194 |
| 1937 | — | — | 602 | #202 |
| 1936 | — | — | 626 | #198 |
| 1935 | — | — | 545 | #220 |
| 1934 | — | — | 456 | #254 |
| 1933 | — | — | 516 | #225 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,084 | 487 | #242 |
| 1931 | — | — | 502 | #234 |
| 1930 | — | — | 548 | #230 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,840 | 505 | #244 |
| 1928 | — | — | 548 | #235 |
| 1927 | — | — | 563 | #235 |
| 1926 | — | — | 625 | #218 |
| 1925 | — | — | 549 | #240 |
| 1924 | — | — | 585 | #231 |
| 1923 | — | — | 587 | #223 |
| 1922 | — | — | 539 | #244 |
| 1921 | — | — | 582 | #229 |
| 1920 | — | — | 558 | #226 |
| 1919 | — | — | 467 | #244 |
| 1918 | — | — | 503 | #238 |
| 1917 | — | — | 471 | #229 |
| 1916 | — | — | 437 | #241 |
| 1915 | — | — | 426 | #232 |
| 1914 | — | — | 345 | #228 |
| 1913 | — | — | 241 | #244 |
| 1912 | — | — | 193 | #255 |
| 1911 | — | — | 95 | #266 |
| 1910 | — | — | 70 | #298 |
| 1909 | — | — | 56 | #308 |
| 1908 | — | — | 66 | #261 |
| 1907 | — | — | 57 | #277 |
| 1906 | — | — | 48 | #293 |
| 1905 | — | — | 49 | #282 |
| 1904 | — | — | 43 | #297 |
| 1903 | — | — | 59 | #235 |
| 1902 | — | — | 42 | #295 |
| 1901 | — | — | 49 | #246 |
| 1900 | — | — | 67 | #250 |
| 1899 | — | — | 43 | #255 |
| 1898 | — | — | 72 | #206 |
| 1897 | — | — | 65 | #210 |
| 1896 | — | — | 48 | #260 |
| 1895 | — | — | 62 | #220 |
| 1894 | — | — | 50 | #245 |
| 1893 | — | — | 73 | #197 |
| 1892 | — | — | 69 | #211 |
| 1891 | — | — | 55 | #215 |
| 1890 | — | — | 80 | #173 |
| 1889 | — | — | 68 | #192 |
| 1888 | — | — | 82 | #181 |
| 1887 | — | — | 82 | #153 |
| 1886 | — | — | 75 | #180 |
| 1885 | — | — | 62 | #202 |
| 1884 | — | — | 86 | #161 |
| 1883 | — | — | 84 | #155 |
| 1882 | — | — | 76 | #177 |
| 1881 | — | — | 65 | #180 |
| 1880 | — | — | 103 | #126 |
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).