Fredrica
Feminine · “Peaceful ruler”
Fredrica is the feminine of a name that was, for two centuries, what Prussian kings were called. It reached America with German families and stayed long enough to become an ordinary American name of its era.
How old is the name Fredrica?
Fredrica first appears in US birth records in 1902 — 123 years ago. The typical Fredrica alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 600 people named Fredrica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fredrica most popular?
Fredrica peaked in 1946, reaching #1678 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Friduric to Fredrica
The story of Fredrica
Prussia used the name the way England used Henry. Kings called Frederick ran the state for most of two centuries, the most famous of them a flute-playing insomniac who wrote French verse, corresponded with philosophers and fought nearly everybody; and the women of those courts carried the feminine, which spread through the German states and then across the Atlantic with the enormous German emigration of the nineteenth century. The spelling here drops a letter the English form keeps: when the Latin feminine ending is added, the ck of the men's name becomes a plain c, which is the ordinary rule for that ending and produces a name that looks softer than its source.
Meaning
Peaceful ruler
The Germanic elements are frid, peace, and ric, rule or power — so the name describes a ruler who keeps the peace rather than one who wins wars. The feminine adds a Latin ending and changes nothing.
How the name formed
- Friduric
- Frederick
- Frederica
- Fredrica
Related forms: Friederike · Federica · Federica · Fredrika
Pronouncing Fredrica
fred-REE-kuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. German says free-de-REE-ke, with four and a fuller ending.
Nicknames for Fredrica
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
- 1902
- Most girls named
- 194726 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1678reached in 1946
- Change vs 1999
- +20.0%6 in 2002, from 5
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.
Fredrica in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Friederike in German — same name
- Federica in Italian — same name
- Federica in Spanish — same name
- Fredrika in Swedish — same name
Fredricas among us
people named Fredrica 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
Fredrica 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 settled, concrete and unusually specific for a name.
- It has native forms across Germany, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia.
- It carries several short forms that sound nothing like each other.
- Frederica is the fuller spelling and hers will be lengthened to it.
- It is long for American use and will be shortened within a week.
- The name is closely associated with an older generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Fredricas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Fredrica are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Fredrica in 2025?
- Fredrica is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Fredrica with classmates?
- Fredrica will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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