Federico
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a male given name, equivalent to English Frederick
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fedeɾiko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Federico is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 314(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 347
- ITItaly≈1 in 382
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- #862 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 314 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 German pFriedrich (see German supplement) or English }Frederick (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Federico is read(measured from records)
Federico is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish78%
a male given name, equivalent to English Frederick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Germánico Frithureiks: 'príncipe/poderoso en la paz'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Federico in English.
- Italian6.5%
Germanico Friederich/Friedrich, 'potente in pace'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Fredericus.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Federico 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #58 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | 2.1K | Federico | 241 |
| AR Argentina | #101 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 347 | 2.4K | Federico | 207 |
| PH Philippines | #407 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Federico | 93 |
| US United States | — | 18,172 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Federico | 407 |
| ES Spain | #250 | 17,349 | 1 in 2.9K | 18K | Federico | 193 |
| UY Uruguay | #21 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 314 | — | Federico | 128 |
| PY Paraguay | #136 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 981 | — | Federico | 52 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Federico 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.
From German pFriedrich (see German supplement) or English }Frederick (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Germanic. See }Frederick in main dictionary.
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. 1194ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250, 1220–1250)
- Federico da Montefeltrob. 1422ITcondottiere of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of Urbino
- Vilfredo Paretob. 1848FRnot in their usual nameItalian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
- Federico García Lorcab. 1898ESSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)
- Federico Fellinib. 1920ITItalian filmmaker (1920–1993)
- Federico Luppib. 1934ARArgentine actor (1936–2017)
- Federico Francob. 1962PY48.° President of Paraguay
- Federico Chiesab. 1997ITItalian association football player (born 1997)
- Federico Valverdeb. 1998UYUruguayan professional footballer (born 1998)
- Ronald Araújob. 1999UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
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 96 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,703 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 18K | #163 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17K | #386 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2.1K | #17 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 597 | #238 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 408 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 408 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 73 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #1,703 |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Federico come from?
- From German pFriedrich (see German supplement) or English }Frederick (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Federico mean?
- In Spanish, a male given name, equivalent to English Frederick
- In which country does Federico have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Federico in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled federico.
- Is Federico a male or female name?
- Federico 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 Federico?
- In the etymology graph, Fred, Frederick and Freddy are forms of the same name in other languages; Fredo is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Federico?
- A machine transcription gives /fedeɾiko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Federico?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,172 people named Federico in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Federico compared with other names?
- In Italy, Federico is the 58th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/federicoThe 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, “Federico” — the 58th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.