Frederika
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Meaning
peaceful ruler; famously borne by Queen Frederica of the Hellenes, consort of Greece's King Paul
The story
Frederika is the feminine of Frederick, Germanic for peaceful ruler, a name that spent centuries strolling the courts of old Europe. Its best-known bearer sat on the Greek throne: Queen Frederica of the Hellenes, a German-born princess and granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who married the future King Paul of Greece and was his queen from 1947 to 1964, through civil war and reconstruction, becoming one of the most discussed royal women of her era, adored by some and argued over by others. Her daughter Sofía went on to become Queen of Spain. In American records Frederika has been vanishingly rare across the entire century of data, barely a flicker until the most recent decade, which makes it that increasingly precious thing: a grand royal name that is genuinely rare in practice, with Freddie and Rika waiting inside as nicknames.
How popular is Frederika around the world?
In the United States, Frederika is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. In Austria, 1 girl named Frederika was born in 2025, ranked 1,875th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
Frederika is on the official records of Austria and England and Wales.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Frederika is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Frederika appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Austria
1 in 76,000
In Austria, 1 girl named Frederika was born in 2025, ranked 1,875th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
England and Wales
1 in 200,000
In England and Wales, 3 girls named Frederika were born in 2025, ranked 5,927th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Canada
last on record 2007
Frederika is not on the 2024 record for Canada, where names under 5 in a year are excluded at source.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Montevideo City
last on record 1993
Frederika is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
South Australia
last on record 1964
Frederika is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Frederika deep dive
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