Frederik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., niederdeutsche, däni sche und niederländische Form von
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fredəriɡ̊/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frederik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.9K
- DEGermany≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235 (inferred from the name graph)
24,976 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom., niederdeutsche, däni sche und niederländische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frederik 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 24,976 | 1 in 235 | 25K | Frederik | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | #313 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Frederik | 50 |
| DE Germany | #611 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Frederik | 210 |
| BE Belgium | #275 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1 | Frederik | 128 |
| TN Tunisia | #702 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Frederik | 1 |
| GL Greenland | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 230 | — | 3 |
24,976 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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)
Attested in 80 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25K | #22 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2021 | 230 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 158 | #44 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Frederik have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Frederik, more than in any other country we hold, 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.
- 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 are other forms of the name Frederik?
- In the etymology graph, Fred, Frederick and Federico are forms of the same name in other languages; Frits is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Frederik?
- A machine transcription gives /fredəriɡ̊/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Frederik mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., niederdeutsche, däni sche und niederländische Form von
- How common is the name Frederik?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 24,976 people named Frederik, about 1 in 235 residents.
- How common is Frederik compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Frederik is the 275th most common given name of 59,589 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frederikThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Frederik” — the 275th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.