Frederik
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Frederik is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 82nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., niederdeutsche, däni sche und niederländische Form von.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9K◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 3K
- DEGermany1 in 5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈28K ●
- Sources
- 210 ●
- 1 in 235 ◐
across 12 countries
55K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
männl. Vom., niederdeutsche, däni sche und niederländische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 24,976△ | 44 rec. | 1 in 235 | 25K | Frederik | 4 |
| DE Germany | #593 | 24,146 | 18K rec. | — | — | Frederik | 197 |
| ZA South Africa | #294 | 11,149 | 11K rec. | — | — | Frederik | 54 |
| FR France | — | 8,982 | 4.4K rec. | — | 910 | Frederik | 210 |
| BE Belgium | #343 | 5,342 | 4.4K rec. | — | 1 | Frederik | 113 |
| AT Austria | #667 | 2,456 | 191 rec. | — | 691 | Frederik | 62 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,989 | 661 rec. | — | 1 | Frederik | 52 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,581 | 1.4K rec. | — | 3 | Frederik | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,061 | 765 rec. | — | — | Frederik | 67 |
| US United States | — | 918 | 6.6K rec. | 1 in 362K | 918 | Frederik | 163 |
| SE Sweden | — | 899△ | 102 rec. | 1 in 11K | 899 | Frederik | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 601△ | 133 rec. | 1 in 9.1K | 2.1K | Frederik | 27 |
Roughly 25K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 235). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Danish125K32%
- Western Frisian71K18%
- English68K17%
- Dutch64K16%
- German29K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 125,004 | 32% |
| Western Frisian | 70,711 | 18% |
| English | 67,861 | 17% |
| Dutch | 63,811 | 16% |
| German | 28,905 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Frederik is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
North German form of FRIEDRICH.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Danish and Low German form of FREDERICK . This has been the name of no less than nine kings of Denmark.
as a word
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 9 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 6 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 13 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 8 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 14 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 15 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 18 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 18 |
| 2024 | 19 |
| 2025 | 29 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 65 years between 1920–2025. 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 III of Great Britainb. 1738GBnot in their usual nameKing of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 (1738–1820)
- George IVb. 1762GBnot in their usual nameKing of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830
- Frederick Soddyb. 1877GBnot in their usual nameEnglish radiochemist (1877–1956)
- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucesterb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameBritish soldier (1900–1974), Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947
- Alec Douglas-Homeb. 1903GBnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
- Robert Donatb. 1905GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor (1905–1958)
- Bruce Springsteenb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican rock singer (born 1949)
- Kiefer Sutherlandb. 1966GBnot in their usual nameBritish-Canadian actor (born 1966)
- Frederik Xb. 1968FRKing of Denmark since 2024
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●
Attested in 79 sources across 39 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 610 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Frederik?
- We estimate roughly 28 thousand people bear Frederik (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Frederik have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 25 thousand people bear Frederik in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled frederik.
- Where is Frederik most common?
- Frederik is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 235 people carrying it.
- How common is Frederik compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Frederik is the 82nd most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Frederik a male or female name?
- Frederik 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.
- What does the name Frederik mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., niederdeutsche, däni sche und niederländische Form von
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Frederik” — the 82nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.