Fredrik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Fredrik (m.fl. former) är sammansatt av namnelementen → Frid- och → -rik
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fre:drik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fredrik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 106(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 262
- NONorway1 in 368
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106 (inferred from the name graph)
96,638 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fredrik (m.fl. former) är sammansatt av namnelementen → Frid- och → -rik. Det är en engelsk, nederländsk och svensk variant av det tyska Friedrich. Fredrik är ett av de vanligaste tilltalsnamnen för män i Sverige. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 18 juli, till minne av en biskop i Utrecht (död 838).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fredrik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #16 | 96,638 | 1 in 106 | 97K | Fredrik | 217 |
| BJ Benin | #2 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 262 | — | Fredrik | 10 |
| NO Norway | #30 | 14,847 | 1 in 368 | 55K | Fredrik | 149 |
| FI Finland | #507 | 5,003 | 1 in 1.1K | 13K | Fredrik | 64 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,777 | 1 in 6.2K | 2.8K | Fredrik | 40 |
96,638 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
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 47 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Fredrik mean?
- Recorded meaning: Fredrik (m.fl. former) är sammansatt av namnelementen → Frid- och → -rik.
- In which country does Fredrik have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 97 thousand people named Fredrik, more than in any other country we hold, 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 do you pronounce Fredrik?
- A machine transcription gives /fre:drik/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- 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 are other forms of the name Fredrik?
- In the etymology graph, Fred, Frederick and Federico are forms of the same name in other languages; Veeti is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Fredrik?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 96,638 people named Fredrik, about 1 in 106 residents.
- How common is Fredrik compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Fredrik is the 16th most common given name of 45,482 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/fredrikThe 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, “Fredrik” — the 16th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.