Given name
Frederica
“a peaceful ruler”
Frederica is a feminine form of Frederick. One German interpretation is “a peaceful ruler.”
Original GermanFriederike
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Frederica carries the interpretation “a peaceful ruler.” Frederica is a feminine form of Frederick. One German interpretation is “a peaceful ruler.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
Frederica is used as a feminine counterpart of Frederick.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1883. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Frederica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,358
- 0 boys · 2,358 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 47 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 47 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,525 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Frederica’s family of names
Frederica has an affectionate form in Freddie. Frederica is a feminine form of Frederick. Frederica has a related form in Freda.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Frederica has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Frederica comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 28
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Fridavariant
- Freddievariant
- Friedavariant
- Freidavariant
- Fredavariant
- Frederickavariant · English
- Fritzievariant
- Fritzivariant
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- Freddivariant
- Friddavariant
- Freddavariant
- Frydavariant
- Fredrickavariant
- Fredricavariant
- Fredrikavariant · Swedish
- Frederikavariant
- Fredericcalikely variant
- Freddericalikely variant
- Frikkavariant
- Friederikevariant · German
- Friederikavariant
- Friedegardevariant
- Friedegardvariant
- Friedevariant
- Frideborgvariant
- Fricivariant
- Federikkevariant
- Frederycavariant
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Frederica
- Frederica von StadeAmerican singer and recording artistborn 1945
- Frederica Sagor Maasplaywright, essayist and author1900–2012
- Frederica WilsonU.S. Representative from Floridaborn 1942
- Frederica de LagunaAmerican ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist (1906–2004)
- Rica EricksonWestern Australian writer, historian, botanist and artist (1908-2009)
- Frederica PiedadePortuguese tennis playerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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