Frederich
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Frederich has been given to 630 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1916, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Frederich, 1986
1 in 711,000
Frederich 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Frederich?
Frederich had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1986
- 1 in 711,000
- 5 of 3,556,724 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 368,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1986
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 493,068 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Frederich sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frederich. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Frederichs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Frederich was born before 1943 — so the typical Frederich is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 17.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 263
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 17.3% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Frederich 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (19)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.7% average annual change
Spellings of Frederich
Frederich is not the most common spelling — Frederick is, with 72.6% against Frederich's 0.17%.
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.
Frederich around the world
Where Frederich 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.
- France1902–1907#643in 1907
- South Australia1964–1964#557in 1964
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Frederich by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Frederich
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Frederich
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.