Fredericka
Feminine · “peaceful ruler”
The Latin feminine of this name does not need a k and this spelling adds one. Frederica is the form Latin and Italian produce and it is perfectly regular; putting a k in front of the ending imports a Germanic letter into a Romance construction, which is why the result looks slightly at odds with itself.
How old is the name Fredericka?
Fredericka first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Fredericka alive today was born around 1949, making them about 76 years old. About 1,100 people named Fredericka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fredericka most popular?
Fredericka peaked in 1883, reaching #561 nationally. See the whole 1883 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Frithuric to Fredericka
The story of Fredericka
The emperor most associated with the name drowned in a river on his way to a crusade, in armor, in shallow water, and Germany refused to believe it. Legend put him asleep inside a mountain with his beard growing through the table, waiting to return when the country needed him, and the story was still being repeated seriously seven hundred years later — it was used as propaganda by regimes that had no business invoking it. His army fell apart when he died and most of them went home. A drowning in a Turkish stream produced one of the most durable pieces of European folklore.
Meaning
peaceful ruler
Two Germanic elements, one meaning peace and one meaning ruler or power. The compound is transparent and its sense has not shifted, whichever spelling of the feminine is used.
How the name formed
- Frithuric
- Frederick
- Fredericka
Related forms: Federica · Friederike · Frédérique
Pronouncing Fredericka
fred-uh-RIK-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the third. The k is said as a plain k and adds nothing that a c would not have.
Nicknames for Fredericka
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
- 1881
- Most girls named
- 194740 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #561reached in 1883
- Change vs 2000
- +16.7%7 in 2004, from 6
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.
Fredericka in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Federica in Italian — same name
- Friederike in German — same name
- Frédérique in French — same name
Frederickas among us
people named Fredericka are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Fredericka sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent once the two Germanic elements are pointed out.
- It offers short forms from either end with quite different characters.
- It is genuinely rare while every part of it is easy to say.
- Frederica is the standard Latin form and this gets corrected.
- Four syllables is long and most people will shorten it immediately.
- The generation that used it in America is now very old.
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- How many Frederickas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Fredericka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Fredericka in 2025?
- Fredericka is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Fredericka will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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