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Male given name
Frederick
Pronunciation
FRED -ər-ik Gender Male
Name day
July 18 Word/name Germanic Meaning "peaceful ruler" Related names
Frid ,
Fritz ,
Rick ,
Ricky ,
Fred ,
Fedde ,
Freddy ,
Redd ,
Friedrich ,
Federico ,
Fredrik
Frederick is a masculine given name meaning "peaceful ruler". It is the
English form of the
German name
Friedrich . Its meaning is derived from the
Germanic word elements frid , or
peace , and ric , meaning "
ruler " or "
power ".
[1]
Frederick ranked among the top 100 names in the
United States between 1880 and 1957 and has declined thereafter. It was ranked as the 536th most popular name for boys in 2009 in the
United States .
[2] It ranked as the 99th most popular name for boys in
England and Wales in 2007.
[3] Freddy, a short form, ranked as the 60th most popular name for boys in
England and Wales in 2008.
[4] Short form Fred was among the most popular names for boys in
Lower Saxony ,
Germany in 2010.
Frederica is a feminine variant of the name Frederick.
Variants
Afrikaans : Frederik
Breton : Frederig
Catalan : Frederic
Croatian : Fridrik
Czech : Bedřich, Bedříšek, Béda
Danish : Frederik, Frede
Dutch : Frederick, Frederik,
Fred ,
Frits , Freek, Rik, Fedde
Emiliano-Romagnolo : Fedrîgh
English : Frederick, Fredrick,
Fred , Freddy, Freddie, Frederic, Fredric
Estonian :
Priidu ,
Priit , Priidik, Preedik, Reedik
Faroese : Fríðrikur
Finnish :
Fredrik , Veeti, Rieti, Reeti, Reetu
French :
Frédéric (
Frédérique is the feminine variant)
German :
Friedrich ,
Fritz , Fredi, Fredy, Feick, Frierdich
Greek : Φρειδερίκος (Freideríkos)
Hungarian : Frigyes, Frici
Icelandic : Friðrik
Irish : Feardorcha
Italian :
Federico , Fredo, Federigo (obsolete)
Latin : Fridericus
Latvian :
Frīdrihs ,
Fricis , Frīdis, Freds, Fredijs, Frederiks
Lithuanian : Frederikas
Norwegian :
Fredrik
Old Frisian : Frethirik
[5]
Old Norse : Friðríkr
Polish :
Fryderyk , Fredek, Fryc
Portuguese : Fradique,
Frederico
Russian : Фридрих (Fridrih), Фредерик (Frederik)
Scottish Gaelic : Freadaraig
Serbian : Fridrih
Slovene : Friderik
Spanish :
Federico , Fico, Feche, Fede, Fadrique (obsolete)
Swedish :
Fredrik
Welsh : Ffredrig, Ffred
People with the name
Kings of Denmark
King of Sweden
Kings of Prussia
King of Württemberg
King of Bohemia
Holy Roman Emperors
Other royalty
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584–1647), Stadtholder of Holland, one of the principal commanders of
Dutch Revolt
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769–1814)
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753–1805)
Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751)
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (born 1968)
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827)
Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750–1765)
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870–1873)
Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1720–1785)
Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747–1837)
Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern (1891–1965)
Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1843–1904)
Prince Frederick of Homburg (1585–1638)
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Prince Frederick of Orange-Nassau (1774–1799)
Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794–1863)
Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861–1914)
Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (1868–1945)
Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1800–1865)
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797–1881)
Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808–1870)
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland (1750–1803)
Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799–1864)
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868–1940)
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia (1801–1883)
Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1757–1844)
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885)
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917)
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931)
Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia (1891–1927)
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern (1924–2010)
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe (born 1947)
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (1880–1925)
Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (1820–1884)
Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1668–1714)
Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels (1770–1814)
Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658–1708)
Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1882–1918)
Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg
People
Frederick of Utrecht (
c. 780 –834/838), saint,
bishop of Utrecht
Fred Akuffo (1937–1979), Ghanaian army officer,
Head of State of Ghana from July 1978-June 1979
Frederick Benteen , American military officer
Frederick Cronyn Betts , Canadian politician and solicitor
Freddie Blassie , American professional wrestling villain and manager
Frederick C. Bock , World War II pilot
Fred Bodsworth , Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist
Frederick Russell Burnham , American scout and world-traveling adventurer known for his service to the
British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, helped inspire the founding of the international
Scouting Movement
Frederick Bywaters (1902–1923), English murderer
Frederick Carrington , British military leader
Frédéric Chopin , Polish composer, one of the greatest composers of the Romantic Era
Fredrick de Silva , Sri Lankan Ambassador to France and UNESCO
Federico Fellini , Italian filmmaker
William Frederick Fisher , American physician and former NASA astronaut
Frederick Graff (1775–1847), American hydraulic engineer
Frederick D. Gregory , former United States Air Force pilot, military engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut as well as former NASA Deputy Administrator
Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), American photographer
Frederick Halterman (1831–1907), U.S. Congressman
Frederick Hauck , retired captain in the United States Navy, former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut
Frederick Mitchell Hodgson , British colonial administrator who was Governor of the Gold Coast (1898–1900), Barbados (1900–04) and British Guiana (1904–11)
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle , British peer, statesman, diplomat, and author
Frederic Lang , New Zealand politician, initially an independent conservative, then from 1914 a member of the
Reform Party , the eighth
Speaker of the House of Representatives , from 1913 to 1922
Frederick W. Leslie , American scientist who flew on the NASA STS-73 Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist
Federico da Montefeltro , one of the most successful mercenary captains of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of
Urbino
Frederick North, Lord North , Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782 who led Great Britain through most of the
American War of Independence
Frederick Law Olmsted , American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator, popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture
Frederick C. Olney (1862–1918), African-American lawyer with Native American ancestry
Frederick Alfred Pile , British army officer
Frederick Poole , English army officer and general
Frederick Roberts , British Army officer
Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich , British politician during the Regency, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between August 1827 and January 1828
Frederick Sandys , British painter, illustrator, and draughtsman
Fred G. Sanford (fictional), elderly, widowed, sarcastic, and cantankerous junk dealer
Frederick Sanger , British Biochemist that twice won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry , one for his work on the structure of
Insulin and another for his contribution to the possibilities of
DNA sequencing
Fredrick de Saram (1912–1983), Sri Lankan Sinhala army colonel, lawyer, and cricket captain
Frederick Scherger , British Air Chief Marshal
Federico Spinola , Italian naval commander in Spanish Habsburg service, one of the principal commanders of
Battle of Sesimbra Bay ,
Battle of the Narrow Seas and
Battle of Sluys
Frederick W. Sturckow , engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut, and commercial spacecraft pilot
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford , British jurist and Conservative politician, twice Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford , British statesman who served as
Governor of Queensland from 1905 to 1909,
Governor of New South Wales from 1909 to 1913, and
Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, where he was responsible for the creation of the
Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford , British imperial general who came to prominence during the
Anglo-Zulu War
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