Frederica

Where Frederica comes from

From Frederick + -a. Compare Danish Frederikke, French Frédérique, German Friederike, and Italian Federica.
— Wiktionary's entry for Frederica
  • Germanic
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #920 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #733
    10 babies named Frederica — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1900
    Frederica Sagor Maas born
    playwright, essayist and author
  4. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,931.
  5. 1945
    Frederica von Stade born
    American singer and recording artist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, of quite rare usage, masculine equivalent Frederick.
Namesakes
  • Frederica von Stade · American singer and recording artist, born 1945
  • Frederica Sagor Maas · playwright, essayist and author, 1900–2012
  • Frederica Wilson · U.S. Representative from Florida, born 1942
  • Frederica de Laguna · American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist, 1906–2004
  • Frederica Piedade · Portuguese tennis player, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.