Friedrich is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fred, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Friedrich: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,915 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,915 in 1962; #3,788 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Friedrich in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,788 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #1,915.
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Friedrich: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,915 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 29 (2025).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Friedrich, making it the 3,788th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,150 places from #4,938 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 20 boys named Friedrich in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,915, reached in 1962. The most boys given the name in a single year was 29, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,773 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Friedrich in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 9 babies. In all, 652 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 150 babies named Friedrich.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 200 US boys were named Friedrich; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 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), Frederic (14,440 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 Friedrich 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 | — | — | 29 | #3,788 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #4,938 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,531 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,760 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,845 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,533 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,045 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,382 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,135 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #6,857 |
| 2015 | — | — | 20 | #4,773 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,325 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,707 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,385 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,759 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,767 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,520 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,409 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,090 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,850 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,247 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,775 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,608 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,486 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,077 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,857 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,489 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,320 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,484 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,867 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,025 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,451 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,990 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,196 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,038 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,714 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,601 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,121 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,310 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,708 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,119 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,718 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,805 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,527 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #1,992 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,402 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,118 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,586 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,915 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,597 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,739 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,675 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,538 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,318 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,839 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,574 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,693 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,380 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,423 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,420 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,894 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,333 |
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).