Fredrik
The boy's name Fredrik has been in the national records since 1924, with 525 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,399th. About 460 Fredriks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Fredrik
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 525
- Estimated living today
- 460
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 3,734th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,399th
- First recorded
- 1924
How old the living Fredriks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 525 babies given the name since 1924, about 460 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Notable Fredriks
- Fredrik Reinfeldt (born 1965)Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014
- Fredrik Bajer (1837–1922)Danish politician
- Fredrik Backman (born 1981)Swedish writer
- Fredrik Aursnes (born 1995)Norwegian association football player
- Fredrik Barth (1928–2016)Norwegian social anthropologist
- Fredrik André Bjørkan (born 1998)Norwegian footballer
- Fredrik Pacius (1809–1891)German composer resided in Finland
- Fredrik Stoor (born 1984)Swedish footballer
People named Fredrik with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fredrik is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular boys’ names the year Fredrik peaked:
Fredrik elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Fredrik | 15,139 | 6th |
| Sweden boys | Fredrik | 2,194 | 39th |
| England and Wales boys | Fredrik | 378 | 1,111th |
| Switzerland boys | Fredrik | 72 | 915th |
| Scotland boys | Fredrik | 6 | 733rd |
| France boys | Fredrik | 5 | 3,504th |
| Ireland boys | Fredrik | 3 | 710th |
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.
Fredrik: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Fredrik | 70 | 0.006% | 700th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Fredrik | 2 | 0.000% | 677th |
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.
Fredrik by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Fredrik 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Fredrik | 1,225 | 4,992 |
| the Netherlands boys | Fredrik | 1,363 | 2,777 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 4,992 who carry it, 1,225 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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
Fredrik 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.