Frederico
Frederico is a given name. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Portuguese.
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Frederico
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Frederico is a given name. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Portuguese.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Portuguese
The Story of Frederico
Frederico first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1914, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1959: 21 births, good for #1,760 nationwide. Frederico last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Frederico
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About the name Frederico
Frederico is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1914 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Frederico's peak popularity came in 1959 when it ranked #1,760. Use the chart and map above to compare Frederico's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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