first name
FREDRIC
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,962 people named Fredric, 82.9% reported their origin as White, 10.3% as Black and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Fredric peaked in 1947, when 223 babies got the name.
At least 8,395 babies have been given the name since 1881. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Fredric by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #995. The largest share of babies named Fredric, 35.5%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Fredric is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Fredric has been most common in New York (3.5×), Wisconsin (2.6×), and Michigan (2.3×), and least common in Texas (0.28×).
4,525 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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