Fryderyk
A comeback name: given to more newborn boys now than in years past, yet still rare enough that most Poles have never met one. Germanic at root, it means "peaceful ruler".
Fryderyk Pronunciation
Fryderyk is pronounced frih-DE-rihk (/frɨˈdɛrɨk/).
What Fryderyk means
Where Fryderyk comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fryderyk grows from two Germanic roots: frid, meaning peace, and ric, meaning ruler or power. Joined, they carry the sense Polish spells out as władca pokoju, a peaceful ruler. The same pairing gives German its Friedrich and English its Frederick, so the Polish form sits inside a broad European family of names.
The best known Polish bearer signed himself Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin. He was born in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, and his music carried the name far past Poland's borders. A composer fixed it in memory.
The girl's form is Fryderyka, the peace and the rule handed straight across. Called out from a school register on an imieniny, the name now marks a child with few namesakes in the room. Under the history and the fame, the old meaning holds: a ruler who keeps the peace, władca pokoju.
When Fryderyk celebrates name day
Fryderyk appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 30 November.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Fryderyk
1 in 4584 men in Poland is named Fryderyk. 4,657 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #502 among male names.
Fryderyk's popularity over time
138 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #222 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2004.
Where Fryderyk is most popular
Fryderyk is most popular in Greater Poland, 86% above the national average (155 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+66%) and Pomeranian (+14%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Podlaskie, 77% and 65% below average respectively.
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Greater Poland155 boys born+86%
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Masovian228 boys born+66%
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Pomeranian65 boys born+14%
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West Pomeranian35 boys born+7%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian43 boys born+1%
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Lower Silesian58 boys born−5%
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Silesian68 boys born−23%
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Lesser Poland60 boys born−32%
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Łódź33 boys born−33%
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Lubusz12 boys born−38%
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Subcarpathian27 boys born−42%
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Warmian-Masurian16 boys born−43%
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Lublin17 boys born−57%
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Opole7 boys born−61%
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Podlaskie9 boys born−65%
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Świętokrzyskie5 boys born−77%
Fryderyk as a middle name
Fryderyk is a first name for 4,657 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3,791, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 136th, between Cyprian (3,792) and Emanuel (3,783).
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#134 Rajmund3,990
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#135 Cyprian3,792
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#136 Fryderyk3,791
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#137 Emanuel3,783
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#138 Hieronim3,760