Fredrik is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fred, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Fredrik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,069 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,069 in 1954; #5,461 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fredrik in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,461 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #2,069.
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Fredrik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,069 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 28 (2020).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Fredrik, making it the 5,461st most common boys’ name of the year, up 277 places from #5,738 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 16 boys named Fredrik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,069, reached in 1954. The most boys given the name in a single year was 28, in 2020. For comparison, it was #6,453 in 2015 and #3,138 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fredrik in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 5 babies. In all, 525 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 125 babies named Fredrik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 187 US boys were named Fredrik; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 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), Fredrick (64,782 babies since 1880) and Frederic (14,440 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Fredrik 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,461 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,738 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,941 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,095 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,826 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,753 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,646 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,649 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2016 | — | — | 10 | #7,778 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,453 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,414 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,063 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,734 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,291 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,064 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,224 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,254 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,665 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,849 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #11,944 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,462 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,669 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,147 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,255 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,106 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,767 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,788 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,692 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,086 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,600 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,068 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,356 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,222 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,970 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,715 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,691 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,665 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,347 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,116 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,145 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,781 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,459 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,737 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,901 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,671 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,069 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,918 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,138 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,504 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,341 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,245 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,714 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,720 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,595 |
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).