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Fredericka

Girls' name

Peace + king, ruler, through Frederica

Fredericka has been given to 1,957 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1947, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Fredericka, 2004

1 in 546,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fredericka: meaning, origin, and history

Peace + king, ruler, through Frederica

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fredericka means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Fredericka is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederica and Frederick.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,957 girls were recorded with the name Fredericka between 1881 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1947; its best national rank was #567 in 1883.

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 Fredericka?

Fredericka 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 546,000
7 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 262,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
378,279 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fredericka 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 2004 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 378,279 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredericka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Frederickas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredericka was born before 1949 — so the typical Fredericka is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
16.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
953
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1940s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (321).

Is Fredericka 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 1947 (40)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#567
1883

Spellings of Fredericka

Fredericka is not the most common spelling — Frederica is, with 30.9% against Fredericka's 25.6%.

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 Fredericka is used

Across 1910–2025, Fredericka was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 350,279 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 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. Fredericka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fredericka around the world

Where Fredericka 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.

  • France
    1999–1999
    #3,851
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

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.

Fredericka 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
#567
1883
Peak year
1947
40 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
1,957
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fredericka

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

FredrickaFredericaFrederickFreedomFreedaFredricaFreyjaFreddieRebeckaFredoniaFrediaFreddaFrenchieFredrikaFreidaDerrickaFredrickFrejaJenickaFrederikaFrednaShandrickaFredShericka

Sibling names for Fredericka

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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