Fredericka

Where Fredericka comes from

Fredericka hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1825
    Fredericka Mandelbaum born
    American fence and gang boss of German origin
  2. 1872
    Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry born
    American social welfare activist
  3. 1881
    First appearance
    #679 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1883
    Peak, #561
    12 babies named Fredericka — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,024.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Fredericka Mandelbaum · American fence and gang boss of German origin, 1825–1894
  • Fredericka Douglass Sprague Perry · American social welfare activist, 1872–1943

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.