Friedrich

German variation of Frederick

Friedrich Origin and Meaning

The name Friedrich is a boy's name of German origin.

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.

Friedrich Popularity

Famous People Named Friedrich

  • Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheGerman philologist, philosopher, poet, and composer
  • Friedrich HasenoehrlAustrian physicist
  • Friedrich BesselGerman mathematician, astronomer
  • Friedrich HundGerman physicist
  • Friedrich SchillerGerman poet
  • Friedrich EngelsGerman Marxist theorist
  • Friedrich HayekAustrian,British economist
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph SchellingGerman philosopher
  • Friedrich Anton Wilhelm MiquelDutch botanist
  • Friedrich HölderlinGerman Romantic poet
  • Friedrich Bergiuswinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • Gero Friedrich Johannson of Prince Daniel & Princess Sandra of Saxony

Friedrich in Pop Culture

  • Friedrich von Trappsecond eldest child in "The Sound of Music"