Frederik

#3,786 in 2025Boys' name

Peace + king, through Frederik

Frederik has been given to 632 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #3,786 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Frederik, 2025

1 in 114,000

Frederik over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Frederik: meaning, origin, and history

Peace + king, through Frederik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Frederik means

Frederik belongs to the name family reached through Frederik → Frederik. Its meaning is “peace + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Frederik is used in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch and Slovak.

Frederik comes through Dutch Frederik.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederic, Frederick and Frederik.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Frederik is pronounced [ˈfʁeðˀʁek].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 632 boys were recorded with the name Frederik between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,172 in 1951.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,070 in 2020 to #3,786 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,126 in 2015 to #3,786 in 2025.

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.

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How common is Frederik?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 114,000; 29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 58,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,786; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 79,239 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Frederik 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 2025 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frederik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Frederiks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Frederik was born before 2002 — so the typical Frederik is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 606; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (136).

Is Frederik 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: +1,335; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,284; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,340; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.61×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (29)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,172; 1951

Spellings of Frederik

Frederik is not the most common spelling — Frederick is, with 74.4% against Frederik's 0.18%.

Frederick74.4%266,060
Fredrick18.1%64,527
Frederic4.0%14,440
Fredric2.3%8,395
Freddrick0.33%1,177
Frederico0.30%1,089
Frederik0.18%632
Frederich0.18%630

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 Frederik is used

Across 1910–2025, Frederik was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Frederik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Frederik around the world

Where Frederik 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
#2,133
in 2025
France
1952–2018
#6,736
in 2018
Norway
1880–2025
#448
in 2025
Canada
1991–2024
#1,817
in 2024
South Australia
1957–2011
#378
in 2011

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

Frederik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,786
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,284
Best rank ever: #2,172; 1951
Peak year: 2025; 29 that year
First recorded: 1920
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 632
Count in 2025: 29

Names similar to Frederik

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

Fredrik Freedom Fredrich Freeland Frederich Fremont Fredrico Frederico Freddrick Maverik Fredick Hendrik Freemon Mavrik Andrik Frederic French Fredric Fredie Frenchie Merrik Alarik Freeman Adrik

Sibling names for Frederik

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Eloisa Kendyl Shoshana Anabel Nila

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Leander Jerimiah Jorden Henri

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