Frederico
The Latinate cousin of Fryderyk, and one almost no Pole has ever met: fewer than fifty men carry it, all of them male. At root it's Germanic for "peaceful ruler".
Frederico Pronunciation
Frederico is pronounced fre-de-REE-tso (/frɛdɛˈrit͡sɔ/).
What Frederico means
Where Frederico comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Frederico grows from a Germanic root. Two old words sit inside it: frid, meaning peace, and ric, meaning ruler or power. Joined, they give the meaning printed on the baby-name page: peaceful ruler, pokojowy władca.
The Polish form of the same root is Fryderyk, and the everyday short version is Fredek. Fryderyk Chopin carried the Polish spelling. He was born near Warsaw in 1810. His fame keeps the name readable to any Polish ear, and the diminutive Fredek softens it for home use. Frederico is the Romance cousin of that name, the shape the root took in Portuguese and Italian.
Read down a class register and a Fredek answers. Behind that short form stand two Germanic words, one for peace and one for rule.
How many people are named Frederico
1 in 435636 men in Poland is named Frederico. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5400 among male names.
Frederico's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Frederico as a middle name
Frederico is a first name for 49 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3284th, between Freddie (9) and Fuad (9).
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