Frederico
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Frederico is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Angola it is the 98th most common given name. Recorded meaning: variant of Federico; from Germanic name meaning 'peaceful ruler'.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.1K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 68K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
34,539 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Federico; from Germanic name meaning 'peaceful ruler'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frederico 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #539 | 34,539 | 1 in 6.1K | 37K | Frederico | 191 |
| PT Portugal | #117 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Frederico | 161 |
| AO Angola | #98 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 1 | Frederico | 40 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Frederico | 23 |
| US United States | — | 1,533 | 1 in 217K | 1.5K | Frederico | 206 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 41 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 24 | Frederico | 39 |
34,539 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Frederico 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.
In German, männl. Vom., portugiesische Form [frada'riku] von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latin, dative/ablative of Frederīcus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Frédéric-César de La Harpeb. 1754CHnot in their usual nameSwiss political leader (1754-1838)
- Frederico de Freitasb. 1902PTComposer and music conductor
- Freddy Cannonb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican rock and roll singer (1936–2026)
- Freddyb. 1979AOnot in their usual nameAngolan footballer
- Frederico Chaves Guedesb. 1983BRBrazilian association football player (born 1983)
- Frederico Gilb. 1985PTPortuguese tennis player
- Fredb. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player, born 1993
- Frederico Venânciob. 1993PTPortuguese footballer
- Frederico Ferreira Silvab. 1995PTPortuguese tennis player (born 1995)
- Frederick I, Duke of Upper LorraineFRnot in their usual nameFrankish nobleman
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(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 37K | #956 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 35K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34K | #744 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,185 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 145 | #744 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #7,145 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #23,042 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #9,185 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #318 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Frederico mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Federico; from Germanic name meaning 'peaceful ruler' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Frederico a male or female name?
- Frederico 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 Frederico?
- In the etymology graph, Frederick, Federico and Freddy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Frederico have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Frederico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frederico.
- How common is the name Frederico?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 34,539 people named Frederico in 2022, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Frederico compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Frederico is the 539th most common given name of 474,894 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/fredericoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Frederico” — the 539th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.