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Fredrick

#1,728 in the US in 2025

Where Fredrick stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#1,728boys’ names · US 2025

Fredrick was the 1,728th most registered boys' name in the United States in 2025, on 94 births.

peak 1953 · 1,341188019532025

Its moment was 1953, when 1,341 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#1,728US rank, 2025 (boys)
94US births in 2025
#126its best US rank, in 1880
1953peak year — 1,341 births
64,527US births since 1880
918NZ births since 1904
321E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Fredrick's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Fredrick was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Fredrick in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.04793
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Fredrick in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Fredrick in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Fredrick has been registered 918 times since 1904, peaking in 1920 with 28 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

1900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 10-BIRTH FLOOR0.0106212
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Fredrick in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Fredrick in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Fredrick was registered 321 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2021 with 56 births. It ranked #934 for boys in 2025 on 33 births. Across those years it has been falling.

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Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Fredrick in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1880#126103
1890#17380
1900#25067
1910#29670
1920#226558
1930#230548
1940#191742
1950#1901,162
1960#263905
1970#247942
1980#310621
1990#468446
2000#718242
2010#1,133164
2020#1,423121

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Fredrick most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
California4,231
New York3,898
Michigan3,607
Illinois3,449
Texas3,374
Ohio3,234
Pennsylvania2,897
Florida2,324
Georgia2,155
Alabama2,132

Questions about Fredrick

How popular is the name Fredrick?

Fredrick ranked #1,728 for boys in the United States in 2025, on 94 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Fredrick most popular?

Fredrick peaked in 1953, when 1,341 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Fredrick rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all boys' births, Fredrick has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1953, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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