Fredrik
Just 56 men in Poland carry this Scandinavian spelling, and none have been recorded as newborns this century. A Germanic name at root, meaning "peaceful ruler".
Fredrik Pronunciation
Fredrik is pronounced FRED-reek (/ˈfrɛdrik/).
What Fredrik means
Where Fredrik comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fredrik grows from Germanic roots. Frithu meant peace, joined to ric, meaning ruler. Put together they give the sense the name still holds: peaceful ruler.
The form Fredrik is the one Scandinavia kept. Sweden crowned a Fredrik I, who reigned from 1720 to 1751, and signed himself with that northern spelling. Denmark and Norway used it for princes too, and it settled into ordinary Scandinavian life far below any palace.
In Poland the k at the end marks it as a name from up there. Short. Firm at the start, soft at the close. A teacher reading the class register hears that final k land clean.
The two halves still do their work. Peace governs the ruler. That old Germanic bargain, frithu set over ric, is what a Polish parent writes on the urząd form when the meaning underneath reads władca pokoju.
How many people are named Fredrik
1 in 381182 men in Poland is named Fredrik. 56 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4955 among male names.
Fredrik as a middle name
Fredrik is a first name for 56 men in Poland and a middle name for another 75, a 43/57 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 826th, between Enzo (75) and Hernán (75).
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#824 Emir75
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#825 Enzo75
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#826 Fredrik75
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#827 Hernán75
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#828 Nico75