# Friedrich (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/friedrich/  
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 | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Fritz |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 652 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 652 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 29, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Friedrich.

## 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 | 15 | 5,759 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,385 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,707 |
| 2014 | 17 | 5,325 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,773 |
| 2016 | 12 | 6,857 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,135 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,382 |
| 2019 | 26 | 4,045 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,533 |
| 2021 | 28 | 3,845 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,760 |
| 2023 | 17 | 5,531 |
| 2024 | 20 | 4,938 |
| 2025 | 29 | 3,788 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3,589 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |

## People named Friedrich

- Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
- Friedrich Hayek, Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
- Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer and mathematician
- Friedrich Max Müller, German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
- Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (1800-1882)
- Friedrich Paulus, German general (1890–1957)
- Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (1884–1949)
- Friedrich Fröbel, German educator
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Baltic German astronomer (1793–1864)
- Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (1844–1904)
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny, German jurist (1779-1861)
- Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian writer, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg (1803–1882)

## 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.