Frederic

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Frederick in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 11 more, Frederik in DK Denmark, SE Sweden, NO Norway and 1 more, Friedrich in DE Germany, AT Austria and Frederique in NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Frederic is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name9.6K records spelled Frederic7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada

  Also written Frédéric, Fred-Eric, Fréderic, Fredéric, Frédèric

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name3.7K records spelled Frederic3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Frédéric, Fréderic

• Catalan given name1.4K records spelled Frederic2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Andorra

  Also written Frédéric

• Finnish given name1.3K records spelled Frederic4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Switzerland, Belgium

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Frédéric, Fréderic

• Italian given name1.2K records spelled Frederic3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland

  Also written Frédéric, Fréderic

• Russian given name609 records spelled Frederic84 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Poland

  Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

  Also written Фридрих, Frederick, Фрідріх, Фредерик, Fridrikh

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Frederic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages, a French style spelling variant of Frederick

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Friedrich IIb. 1194ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)
• George Frideric Handelb. 1685DEnot in their usual nameGerman-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• Georges Cuvierb. 1769FRnot in their usual nameFrench naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
• Frédéric Bastiatb. 1801FRFrench classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly (1801-1850)
• Frédéric Passyb. 1822FRFrench economist and statesman (1822-1912)
• Frederic Leightonb. 1830GBEnglish painter and sculptor (1830–1896)
• Frédéric Mistralb. 1830FRProvençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
• Frédéric Joliot-Curieb. 1900FRFrench scientist (1900-1958)
• B. F. Skinnerb. 1904USnot in their usual nameAmerican behaviorist (1904–1990)
• Emmanuel Macronb. 1977FRnot in their usual namePresident of France since 2017

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 530 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Frederic?

We estimate roughly 615 thousand people bear Frederic (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Frederic have the most bearers?

We estimate about 328 thousand people bear Frederic in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled frederic.

Where is Frederic most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Frederic is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 106 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.

How common is Frederic compared with other names?

In France, Frederic is the 20th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Frederic a male or female name?

Frederic is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.