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Fredrik

#5,459 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Frederick

Fredrik has been given to 525 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #5,459 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Fredrik, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fredrik: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Frederick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fredrik means

Fredrik is a form of Frederick.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fredrik → Frederick. The family’s meaning is “peace + king, ruler”, recorded in English with the source elements friþuz and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Fredrik is used in Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederick.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 525 boys were recorded with the name Fredrik between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,068 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,750 in 2020 to #5,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,448 in 2015 to #5,459 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fredrik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,459
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fredrik 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredrik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fredriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredrik was born before 2007 — so the typical Fredrik is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
488
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (125).

Is Fredrik 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
+275
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,709
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+989
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.7%
Peak was 2020 (28)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,068
1954

Spellings of Fredrik

Fredrik is not the most common spelling — Frederick is, with 61.7% against Fredrik's 0.12%.

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 Fredrik is used

Across 1910–2025, Fredrik was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 764,224 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Fredrik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fredrik around the world

Where Fredrik 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2017–2017
    #710
    in 2017
  • France
    1993–1993
    #3,504
    in 1993
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #81
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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

Fredrik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,709
Best rank ever
#2,068
1954
Peak year
2020
28 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
525
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Fredrik

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

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Sibling names for Fredrik

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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