# Fredric (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fredric/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,395 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,395 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 94, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 6,356 |
| 2012 | 14 | 6,096 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,244 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,413 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,230 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,876 |
| 2017 | 13 | 6,430 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,470 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,915 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,798 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,261 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,957 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,308 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5,998 |
| 2025 | 15 | 5,946 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2005 | 7 | 2,174 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2,087 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,158 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,390 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Fredric

- Fredric March, American actor (1897–1975)
- Fredric Jameson, American academic and literary critic (1934–2024)
- Fredric Brown, American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
- Fredric Lehne, American actor
- Fredric Wertham, German-American psychiatrist (1895-1981)
- Fredric Steinkamp, American film editor (1928-2002)
- Fredric Hope, art director (1900-1937)
- Adam Duritz, American singer
- Myles Burnyeat, British scholar of ancient philosophy (1939–2019)
- Michael Sipser, American mathematician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.