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Baby name
Frederic
Boy
Origin of the name
Frédéric is the French form of Frederick, a Germanic name made of frid, “peace,” and rik, “ruler”: “peaceful ruler.”
Classic name
14,440births since 1880
1940sgeneration
No. 397rank at its peak, in 1947
Where babies named Frederic are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Frederic is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Frederic is most common in Massachusetts (4.4 times), New York (2.9) and Connecticut (2.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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