Fredderick
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fredderick has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1930. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Fredderick, 2004
1 in 764,000
Fredderick over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Fredderick?
Fredderick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 397,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fredderick sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredderick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Freddericks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredderick was born before 1964 — so the typical Fredderick is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 39.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 121
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Fredderick rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1953 (12)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.4% average annual change
Spellings of Fredderick
Fredderick is not the most common spelling — Frederick is, with 76.3% against Fredderick's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Fredderick by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Fredderick
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fredderick
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.