Fredrik

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Friðrik in IS Iceland.

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 16 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◐

Fredrik is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name11K records spelled Fredrik7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, France, United States

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Frédrik

• a separate given name4.0K records spelled Fredrik2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Frédrik

• a separate given name2.1K records spelled Fredrik2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Norway, India

  Also written Fredrïk

• Russian given name641 records spelled Fredrik18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Russia, Tanzania

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Fredrick, Фредрик, Fredric, Фредрік, Fredrika

44 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●

Fredrik 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.

• Swedish form of FREDERICK . The name was first used in Sweden in the 14th century, but did not become popular until the 18th century, with the reigns of the kings Fredrik I (1720–51) and Adolf Fredrik (1751–71).

  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●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 81 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Frederick IV of Naplesb. 1451ITnot in their usual nameKing of Naples
• Frederick I of Swedenb. 1676SEnot in their usual nameking of Sweden (1676-1751)
• Friedrich Schlegelb. 1772DEnot in their usual nameGerman poet, critic and scholar, editor
• Oscar IIb. 1829SEnot in their usual nameKing of Sweden from 1872 to 1907 and Norway from 1872 to 1905 (1829–1907)
• Fredrik Bajerb. 1837DKDanish politician (1837-1922)
• Gustaf VI Adolfb. 1882SEnot in their usual nameKing of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
• Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbottenb. 1906SEnot in their usual nameSwedish prince, heir apparent until his death (1906–1947); father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
• Sigvard Bernadotteb. 1907SEnot in their usual nameSwedish designer and illustrator (1907–2002)
• Fredrik Reinfeldtb. 1965SEPrime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014
• Fredrik Ljungbergb. 1977SESwedish association football player and manager

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 · 337 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fredrik?

We estimate roughly 122 thousand people bear Fredrik (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Fredrik have the most bearers?

We estimate about 97 thousand people bear Fredrik in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fredrik.

Where is Fredrik most common?

Fredrik is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 people carrying it.

How common is Fredrik compared with other names?

In Sweden, Fredrik is the 13th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.

Is Fredrik a male or female name?

Fredrik 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 Fredrik mean?

Recorded meaning: Fredrik (m.fl. former) är sammansatt av namnelementen → Frid- och → -rik.