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Frederico

Boys' name

Peace king, peaceful ruler

Frederico has been given to 1,089 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1959, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Frederico, 2024

1 in 418,000

Frederico over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Frederico: meaning, origin, and history

Peace king, peaceful ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Frederico means

Frederico means “peace king, peaceful ruler”, associated with Friþurīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Frederico is used in Italian and Portuguese.

Frederico comes through Latin Frederīcus and Proto-Germanic *Friþurīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Federico and Frederick.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Frederico is pronounced /fre.deˈri.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,089 boys were recorded with the name Frederico between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,693 in 1951.

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 Frederico?

Frederico 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 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Frederico sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frederico. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fredericos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frederico was born before 1972 — so the typical Frederico is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
861
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Frederico 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 1959 (21)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,693
1951

Spellings of Frederico

Frederico is not the most common spelling — Frederick is, with 72.7% against Frederico's 0.30%.

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 Frederico is used

Across 1910–2025, Frederico was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 423,515 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Frederico has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Frederico around the world

Where Frederico 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1933–2025
    #6,689
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1949–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Frederico by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,693
1951
Peak year
1959
21 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,089
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Frederico

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

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Sibling names for Frederico

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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