Friedrich
About Friedrich
One of the most familiar German names, with an upright Prussian image. Friedrich might just have been out for long enough to start coming back in.
Pronounced FREE-drikh.
As of October 2026, Friedrich ranked #3788 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1915 in 1962.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | #4,772 | 20 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | #4,041 | 26 | 14.5 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | #3,842 | 28 | 16 |
| 2022 | #4,759 | 21 | 12 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | #4,921 | 20 | 11.6 |
| 2025 | #3,788 | 29 | 17 |
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Friedrich on lists
Famous Friedrichs
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
German philologist, philosopher, poet, and composer
- Friedrich Hasenoehrl
Austrian physicist
- Friedrich Bessel
German mathematician, astronomer
- Friedrich Hund
German physicist
- Friedrich Schiller
German poet
- Friedrich Engels
German Marxist theorist
- Friedrich Hayek
Austrian,British economist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
German philosopher
- Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
Dutch botanist
- Friedrich Hölderlin
German Romantic poet
- Friedrich Bergius
winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Gero Friedrich Johann
son of Prince Daniel & Princess Sandra of Saxony
Friedrich in pop culture
- Friedrich von Trapp
second eldest child in "The Sound of Music"