Fréderic

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries

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Fréderic is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.

  • FRFrance≈1 in 340(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 680
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fréderic itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈200,000 people, est.

#942 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
433 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 338 (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
FrédericLatin(measured from records)
เฟรดเดอริคThai(measured from records)
ՖրեդերիկArmenian(measured from records)
프레데리크Hangul(measured from records)
ΦρεντερικGreek(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Frederic in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 2 more, Frederik in DK Denmark and Frédéric in CH Switzerland.

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

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Dutch

< germ. Friedrich; prin forma magh. Frig yes. 1. Frija (Sur VII) ; Frija, Ion (16 B IV 69). 2. Frijan, fam. (Sez). 3. Frij:e b. (16 A I 264) ; -oae , Musa f. (ib . 445). 4. Freja b., diac (Cat ; 16 B IV 491). Frij/a, -an, -e v. Frederic.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Fréderic counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Fréderic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#16≈200,000 est.≈1 in 338328KFrederic433
US United States—138,927as Frederick1 in 2.4K139KFrederic371
DK Denmark#5024,976as Frederik1 in 23525KFrederik206
BE Belgium#34≈17,000 est.≈1 in 681301Frederic179
CM Cameroon#171≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Frederic30
CH Switzerland#72≈6,200 est.≈1 in 1.5K5Frédéric136
ES Spain#8021,2791 in 39K1.3KFrederic119

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Fréderic is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Fred-Eric, Frederic, Frèdèric, Fredéric, Frédèric

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Frederic, Frédéric

  • French (Burkina Faso) given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Frédéric, Frederic

14 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalBonjour Fréderic,Hi Fréderic, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Fréderic under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fréderic a male or female name?
Fréderic 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.
Which countries have the most people named Fréderic?
Mondonomo estimates about 203 thousand people named Fréderic in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frederic. After it come United States, Denmark, Belgium and Cameroon; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Fréderic?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,279 people named Fréderic, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
How common is Fréderic compared with other names?
In France, Fréderic is the 16th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fréderic” — the 16th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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