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Fredrika

Girls' name

Feminine form of Frederick

Fredrika has been given to 290 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1976, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Fredrika, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fredrika: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Frederick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fredrika means

Fredrika is a feminine form of Frederick.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fredrika is used in Swedish and Finnish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /frɛd.ˈriː.ka/ and /ˈfred.ri.kɑ/ for Fredrika.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Fredrika is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederick and Frederica.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Fredrika is pronounced /frɛd²riːka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 290 girls were recorded with the name Fredrika between 1916 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1976; its best national rank was #3,312 in 1940.

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 Fredrika?

Fredrika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fredrika 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fredrika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fredrikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fredrika was born before 1975 — so the typical Fredrika is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
252
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Fredrika 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (16)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,312
1940

Spellings of Fredrika

Fredrika is not the most common spelling — Frederica is, with 25.8% against Fredrika's 3.2%.

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.

Fredrika around the world

Where Fredrika 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
    1998–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Fredrika 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
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Best rank ever
#3,312
1940
Peak year
1976
16 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
290
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fredrika

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

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Sibling names for Fredrika

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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