Frederika
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Frederika has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1964, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Frederika, 1976
1 in 607,000
Frederika 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Frederika?
Frederika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1976
- 1 in 607,000
- 5 of 3,034,007 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 293,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1976
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 420,604 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Frederika sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1976 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 420,604 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Frederika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Frederikas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Frederika was born before 1962 — so the typical Frederika is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 37.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 61
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Frederika 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1964 (8)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Frederika
Frederika is not the most common spelling — Frederica is, with 30.6% against Frederika's 0.95%.
- Frederica30.6%2,358
- Fredericka25.4%1,957
- Fredricka17.2%1,322
- Frederick14.3%1,105
- Fredrica11.6%890
- Frederika0.95%73
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.
Frederika around the world
Where Frederika 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 & Wales2004–2025#5,927in 2025
- France1957–2007#5,135in 2007
- Canada1996–2007#3,117in 2007
- South Australia1964–1964#653in 1964
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Frederika by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Frederika
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Frederika
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.