American Family Name Origins:
Fredrick
Frequency: (2102)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements frid, fred ‘peace’ + rīc ‘power’ (see Friedrich).
2. In some cases possibly an altered spelling of Frederick or likesounding cognates in other languages.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
