Friedrich
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic given name Friedrich, from *friþu- 'peace' + *rīc- 'power, ruler'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fʁɪdʁɪç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Friedrich is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 630(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.1K
- USUnited States1 in 344K
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 Friedrich 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 630 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fredrik in SE Sweden, NO Norway, FI Finland.
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)
from the Germanic given name Friedrich, from *friþu- 'peace' + *rīc- 'power, ruler'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Friedrich 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #126 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 630 | — | Friedrich | 230 |
| SE Sweden | — | 96,638as Fredrik | 1 in 106 | 97K | Fredrik | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 14,847as Fredrik | 1 in 368 | 55K | Fredrik | 20 |
| AT Austria | #137 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 708 | Friedrich | 140 |
| FI Finland | — | 5,003as Fredrik | 1 in 1.1K | 13K | Fredrik | 9 |
| US United States | — | 967 | 1 in 344K | 6.2K | Friedrich | 282 |
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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Friedrich is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Germanic *fridu- 'peace' + *rīhhi- 'power, ruler'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In French, German form of Frédéric, Germanic 'peace ruler'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, German surname from the personal name Friedrich; page demonstrates the fugenvokal e in the name and its later vowel/Latin variants.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Linking-vowel variation in surnames from personal names Dietrich/Friedrich/Emrich/Ludwig/Mangold.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
$ Germanic: ‘peace ruler’; a royal and imperial name from an early date. Also: Friederich.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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. 1194ITKing of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)
- Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperorb. 1415ATnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke (1452–1493)
- Friedrich Schillerb. 1759DEGerman playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
- Friedrich Schlegelb. 1772DEGerman poet, critic and scholar, editor
- Leopold I of Belgiumb. 1790BEnot in their usual nameGerman prince who became the first King of the Belgians (1790–1865)
- Wilhelm Ib. 1797DEnot in their usual name19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia (1797–1888)
- Wilhelm Ostwaldb. 1853DEnot in their usual nameBaltic German chemist (1853–1932)
- Martin Niemöllerb. 1892DEnot in their usual nameGerman theologian (1892–1984)
- Joachim von Ribbentropb. 1893DEnot in their usual nameGerman Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
- Friedrich Hayekb. 1899ATAustrian and British economist (1899–1992)
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 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 962 | #12,747 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 708 | #294 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 546 | #2,596 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 478 | #1,109 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 102 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 95 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 94 | #8,033 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 19 | #296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #12,747 |
Reference works 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Friedrich mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic given name Friedrich, from *friþu- 'peace' + *rīc- 'power, ruler' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Friedrich?
- In the etymology graph, Frederick, Federico and Freddy are forms of the same name in other languages; Fred and Fiete are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Friedrich?
- A machine transcription gives /fʁɪdʁɪç/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Friedrich a male or female name?
- Friedrich 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.
- In which country does Friedrich have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Friedrich in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled friedrich.
- How common is the name Friedrich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 967 people named Friedrich in 2020, about 1 in 344 thousand residents.
- How common is Friedrich compared with other names?
- In Germany, Friedrich is the 126th most common given name of 156,202 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/friedrichThe 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, “Friedrich” — the 126th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.