Friedrich

#3,787 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Frederick

Friedrich has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,787 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Friedrich, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Friedrich: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Frederick

German and Old High German

What Friedrich means

Friedrich is a form of Frederick.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Friedrich is used in English and German. Its origins include German and Old High German.

Friedrich comes through German Friedrich.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederick.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Friedrich is pronounced /ˈfʁiː.dʁɪç/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 652 boys were recorded with the name Friedrich between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,914 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,529 in 2020 to #3,787 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,771 in 2015 to #3,787 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 Friedrich?

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: #3,787; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 79,239 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Friedrich 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 Friedrich. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Friedrichs were born

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

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 51.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 605; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (150).

Is Friedrich 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: +1,147; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,742; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +984; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.45×; 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; 34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,914; 1962

Spellings of Friedrich

Friedrich is not the most common spelling — Fredrick is, with 87.0% against Friedrich's 0.88%.

Fredrick87.0%64,527
Fredric11.3%8,395
Friedrich0.88%652
Frederich0.85%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.

Friedrich around the world

Where Friedrich 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
1997–2022
#2,530
in 2022
France
1901–1988
#2,321
in 1988
Canada
2022–2022
#2,959
in 2022
South Australia
1949–2008
#726
in 2008

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.

Friedrich by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,787
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,742
Best rank ever: #1,914; 1962
Peak year: 2025; 29 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 652
Count in 2025: 29

Names similar to Friedrich

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

Heinrich Frederich Aldrich Emmerich Dietrich Fredrich Ulrich Frisco Deitrich Zurich Fritz Friddie Fritzgerald Friend Detrich Patrich Diedrich Chadwich Derrich Rich Roderich Kendrich Emerich Erich

Sibling names for Friedrich

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 Anabel Shoshana Nila

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Tobin Leander Jerimiah Jorden Henri

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