Given name
Fredrika
“a peaceful ruler”
Fredrika is a variant of Frederica. In German use, Frederica carries the interpretation “a peaceful ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fredrika is a variant of Frederica. In German use, Frederica carries the interpretation “a peaceful ruler.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fredrika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 290
- 0 boys · 290 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 16 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 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 329 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.
Fredrika’s family of names
Fredrika has a related form in Frederica. In Swedish usage, Fredrika has a conventional equivalent in the English form Frederica. In Swedish usage, Fredrika has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Φρειδερίκη.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fredrika
- Fredrika BremerSwedish writer and feminist (1801–1865)
- Fredrika RunebergFinland Swedish novelist, Finland's first female journalist (1807–1879)
- Fredrika Stahlsinger and songwriterborn 1984
- Ika PeyronSwedish musician (1845-1922)
- Fredrika LimnellSwedish salonist1816–1892
- Fredrika Stenhammarsinger1836–1880
- Fredrika Wilhelmina CarstensFinnish writer (1808-1888)
- Fredrika Eleonora von DübenSwedish artist (1738-1808)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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