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Frederica

Girls' name

Peace + king, ruler, through Frederick

Frederica has been given to 2,358 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1960, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Frederica, 2024

1 in 669,000

Frederica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Frederica: meaning, origin, and history

Peace + king, ruler, through Frederick

Germanic languages

What Frederica means

Frederica belongs to the name family reached through Frederica → Frederick. Its meaning is “peace + king, ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Frederica is used in English and Occitan. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederick.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Frederica is pronounced /ˌfɹɛdəˈɹiː.kə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,358 girls were recorded with the name Frederica between 1883 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1960; its best national rank was #752 in 1887.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Frederica?

Frederica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Frederica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frederica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fredericas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frederica was born before 1952 — so the typical Frederica is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,270
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (354).

Is Frederica 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (47)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#752
1887

Spellings of Frederica

Frederica is the most-used spelling, taking 30.9% of the 7,632 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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.

Where Frederica is used

Across 1910–2025, Frederica was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 242,277 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Frederica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Frederica around the world

Where Frederica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • France
    1906–2007
    #5,827
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Frederica

People whose public names include Frederica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Frederica in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Frederica. Linked forms have their own page here.

FreddyUlricaUlrikaUlrikeFedericaFredrikaFrederikaFrederiqueRiikkaUlrykaUlrikkeBedřiškaFriðrikaFriderikaFryderykaFriederikeFrédérique

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Frederica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#752
1887
Peak year
1960
47 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,358
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Frederica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FredricaFredrickaFrederickDominicaFreedomFrederickaDomenicaFreedaAnjelicaFreyjaNauticaJennicaFreddieYessicaJerricaFrediaYesicaLamonicaJenicaFredoniaFreidaFreddaJericaFrenchie

Names with a curve like Frederica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Frederica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TheressaJayCurtisTheresiaRayeWilletteVanitaArnettaLawrenceGenieVernettaThresa

Sibling names for Frederica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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