Federico
Masculine · “peaceful ruler”
Federico is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 8,971 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Federico is peaceful ruler in Germanic — and Federico García Lorca, shot in 1936, is the poet the name carries first in Spanish.
How old is the name Federico?
Federico first appears in US birth records in 1889 — 136 years ago. The typical Federico alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 7,100 people named Federico are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Federico most popular?
Federico peaked in 1976, reaching #679 nationally. Today it ranks #2035, 1,356 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From frid ric to Federico
The story of Federico
Frederick II, the thirteenth-century emperor, ruled from Sicily and was called stupor mundi, the wonder of the world. Federico García Lorca was killed by Nationalist forces in the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War and his body has never been found. Federico Fellini made the Italian form famous again. It is in current American use.
Meaning
peaceful ruler
From the Germanic frid, 'peace', and ric, 'ruler' or 'power'. The same compound gives the German Friedrich and the English Frederick. Italian and Spanish made Federico from the Latinized Fridericus. The elements are ordinary and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- frid ric
- Fridericus
- Federico
Related forms: Federico · Federico · Friedrich · Frederick
Pronouncing Federico
feh-deh-REE-koh
Four syllables, stress on the third. Spanish and Italian say it nearly identically.
Nicknames for Federico
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1889
- Most boys named
- 2007147 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #679reached in 1976
- Change vs 2022
- +2.8%73 in 2025, from 71
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Federico in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Federico in Italian — same name
- Federico in Spanish — same name
- Friedrich in German — related form
- Frederick in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, California.
Federicos among us
people named Federico are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 23,398 born in 2025 was named Federico
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alfonzo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Federico's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alfonzo climbed just as high around 1909, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alfonzo's path sketches the road Federico is walking now.
Federico sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Federico is headed
Federico looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 19% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Federico beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Federico in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The peaceful-ruler meaning is transparent and undisputed.
- Fede and Rico are two short forms, both with real use.
- Lorca, Fellini and an emperor called the wonder of the world all carry it.
- Four syllables make it long for everyday use.
- Frederick is what English speakers will substitute.
- It reads as specifically Italian or Spanish.
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Frequently asked
- How many Federicos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,100 people named Federico are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Federico in 2025?
- Federico ranks #2035 among US boy names in 2025, with 73 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Federico?
- About 1 in every 23,398 US boys born in 2025 was named Federico — 73 in all.
- Will my child share the name Federico with classmates?
- Federico will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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