Frederica
The girl's name Frederica has been in the national records since 1883, with 2,358 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,400 Fredericas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Frederica
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,358
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 1,637th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
How old the living Fredericas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,358 babies given the name since 1883, about 1,400 are alive — 58 in every hundred. Roughly 50 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
. Compare Danish Frederikke, French Frédérique, German Friederike, and Italian Federica.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fredericas
- Frederica of Hanover (1917–1981)Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
- Frederica of Baden (1781–1826)Swedish Queen
- Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1778–1841)Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Prussia, Solms-Braunfels & Great Britain, Queen of Hanover
- Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1758–1794)Hereditary Princess of Denmark and Norway
- Frederica von Stade (born 1945)American singer and recording artist
- Frederica Wilson (born 1942)U.S. Representative from Florida
- Frederica Sagor Maas (1900–2012)playwright, essayist and author
- Frederica de Laguna (1906–2004)American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist
People named Frederica with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Frederica is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Frederica is most concentrated in New York (8.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Frederica peaked:
Frederica elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Frederica +1 spelling | 210 | 1,384th |
| England and Wales girls | Frederica | 161 | 2,278th |
| Switzerland girls | Frederica | 15 | 1,298th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Frederica: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Frederica | 9 | 0.001% | 1,190th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Frederica | 6 | 0.001% | 562nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Frederica among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Frederica | 939 | 3,803 |
| the Netherlands boys | Frederica | — | 37 |
| Finland girls | Frederica | — | 9 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,803 who carry it, 939 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Frederica against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.