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The FREDERICK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 39,909 791 0.015 148
United States (1880 census) 6,657 910 0.013 133
Change since 1880 +33252 +119 +0.002 +15
Other Countries
Australia 248 6217 0.002 15
United Kingdom 826 6110 0.002 18
Top States for FREDERICK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 3,487 307 0.028 284
Florida 2,478 798 0.016 155
Ohio 2,452 491 0.022 216
New York 2,195 776 0.012 116
Texas 2,190 1159 0.011 105
Top States for FREDERICK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,885 314 0.042 422
North Dakota 200 296 0.031 311
Pennsylvania 3,487 307 0.028 284
Delaware 200 658 0.026 255
Kentucky 958 632 0.024 237

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FREDERICK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FREDERICK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FREDERICK in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FREDERICK by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FREDERICK

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of FREDERICK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 611 1.53
Mixed Race 595 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 315 0.79
Asian/Pacific 196 0.49
White (Caucasian) 33,085 82.9
Black/African American 5,108 12.8

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FREDERICK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FREDERICK in historical publications

FREDERICK. The personal name. Frederic was a tenant in Kent prior to the making of Domesday.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FREDERICK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FREDERICK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FREDERICK

The following words are slight variants of FREDERICK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.