Английская Википедия:Frederick (given name)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox given name Frederick is a masculine given name meaning "peaceful ruler". It is the English form of the German name Friedrich. Its meaning is derived from the Germanic word elements frid, or peace, and ric, meaning "ruler" or "power".[1]
Frederick ranked among the top 100 names in the United States between 1880 and 1957 and has declined thereafter. It was ranked as the 536th most popular name for boys in 2009 in the United States.[2] It ranked as the 99th most popular name for boys in England and Wales in 2007.[3] Freddy, a short form, ranked as the 60th most popular name for boys in England and Wales in 2008.[4] Short form Fred was among the most popular names for boys in Lower Saxony, Germany in 2010.
Frederica is a feminine variant of the name Frederick.
Variants
- Afrikaans: Frederik
- Breton: Frederig
- Catalan: Frederic
- Croatian: Fridrik
- Czech: Bedřich, Bedříšek, Béda
- Danish: Frederik, Frede
- Dutch: Frederick, Frederik, Fred, Frits, Freek, Rik, Fedde
- Emiliano-Romagnolo: Fedrîgh
- English: Frederick, Fredrick, Fred, Freddy, Freddie, Frederic, Fredric
- Estonian: Priidu, Priit, Priidik, Preedik, Reedik
- Faroese: Fríðrikur
- Finnish: Fredrik, Veeti, Rieti, Reeti, Reetu
- French: Frédéric (Frédérique is the feminine variant)
- German: Friedrich, Fritz, Fredi, Fredy, Feick
- Greek: Φρειδερίκος (Freideríkos)
- Hungarian: Frigyes, Frici
- Icelandic: Friðrik
- Irish: Feardorcha
- Italian: Federico, Fredo, Federigo (obsolete)
- Latin: Fridericus
- Latvian: Frīdrihs, Fricis, Frīdis, Freds, Fredijs, Frederiks
- Lithuanian: Frederikas
- Norwegian: Fredrik
- Old Frisian: Frethirik[5]
- Old Norse: Friðríkr
- Polish: Fryderyk, Fredek, Fryc
- Portuguese: Fradique, Frederico
- Russian: Фридрих (Fridrih), Фредерик (Frederik)
- Scottish Gaelic: Freadaraig
- Serbian: Fridrih
- Slovene: Friderik
- Spanish: Federico, Fico, Feche, Fede, Fadrique (obsolete)
- Swedish: Fredrik
- Welsh: Ffredrig, Ffred
People with the name
- Kings of Denmark
- Frederick I of Denmark
- Frederick II of Denmark
- Frederick III of Denmark
- Frederick IV of Denmark
- Frederick V of Denmark
- Frederick VI of Denmark
- Frederick VII of Denmark
- Frederick VIII of Denmark
- Frederik IX of Denmark
- Frederik X
- King of Sweden
- Frederick I of Sweden
- Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710–1771)
- Kings of Prussia
- Frederick I of Prussia, previously Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg
- Frederick II of Prussia, Frederick the Great
- Frederick III, German Emperor, also King Frederick III of Prussia
- Frederick William I of Prussia (1688–1740)
- Frederick William II of Prussia (1744–1797)
- Frederick William III of Prussia (1770–1840)
- Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795–1861)
- King of Württemberg
- Frederick I of Württemberg (1754–1816)
- King of Bohemia
- Holy Roman Emperors
- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Barbarossa)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250)
- Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415–1493)
- Other royalty
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584–1647), Stadtholder of Holland, one of the principal commanders of Dutch Revolt
- Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769–1814)
- Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753–1805)
- Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751)
- Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (born 1968)
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827)
- Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750–1765)
- Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870–1873)
- Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1720–1785)
- Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747–1837)
- Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern (1891–1965)
- Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1843–1904)
- Prince Frederick of Homburg (1585–1638)
- Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- Prince Frederick of Orange-Nassau (1774–1799)
- Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794–1863)
- Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861–1914)
- Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (1868–1945)
- Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
- Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
- Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1800–1865)
- Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797–1881)
- Prince Frederick of Württemberg (1808–1870)
- Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland (1750–1803)
- Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799–1864)
- Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868–1940)
- Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia (1801–1883)
- Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg
- Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1757–1844)
- Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885)
- Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893–1917)
- Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931)
- Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia (1891–1927)
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern (1924–2010)
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe (born 1947)
- Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (1880–1925)
- Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (1820–1884)
- Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1668–1714)
- Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels (1770–1814)
- Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658–1708)
- Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1882–1918)
- Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
- Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
- Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
- Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
- Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
- Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
- John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony
- George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia
- Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg
- People
- Frederick of Utrecht (Шаблон:Ca–834/838), saint, bishop of Utrecht
- Fred Akuffo (1937–1979), Ghanaian army officer, Head of State of Ghana from July 1978-June 1979
- Frederick Benteen, American military officer
- Frederick Cronyn Betts, Canadian politician and solicitor
- Freddie Blassie, American professional wrestling villain and manager
- Frederick C. Bock, World War II pilot
- Fred Bodsworth, Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist
- Frederick Russell Burnham, American scout and world-traveling adventurer known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement
- Frederick Bywaters (1902–1923), English murderer
- Frederick Carrington, British military leader
- Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer, one of the greatest composers of the Romantic Era
- Fredrick de Silva, Sri Lankan Ambassador to France and UNESCO
- Federico Fellini, Italian filmmaker
- William Frederick Fisher, American physician and former NASA astronaut
- Frederick Graff (1775–1847), American hydraulic engineer
- Frederick D. Gregory, former United States Air Force pilot, military engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut as well as former NASA Deputy Administrator
- Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), American photographer
- Frederick Halterman (1831–1907), U.S. Congressman
- Frederick Hauck, retired captain in the United States Navy, former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut
- Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, British colonial administrator who was Governor of the Gold Coast (1898–1900), Barbados (1900–04) and British Guiana (1904–11)
- Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, British peer, statesman, diplomat, and author
- Frederic Lang, New Zealand politician, initially an independent conservative, then from 1914 a member of the Reform Party, the eighth Speaker of the House of Representatives, from 1913 to 1922
- Frederick W. Leslie, American scientist who flew on the NASA STS-73 Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist
- Federico da Montefeltro, one of the most successful mercenary captains of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of Urbino
- Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782 who led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence
- Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator, popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture
- Frederick C. Olney (1862–1918), African-American lawyer with Native American ancestry
- Frederick Alfred Pile, British army officer
- Frederick Poole, English army officer and general
- Frederick Roberts, British Army officer
- Frederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British politician during the Regency, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between August 1827 and January 1828
- Frederick Sandys, British painter, illustrator, and draughtsman
- Fred G. Sanford (fictional), elderly, widowed, sarcastic, and cantankerous junk dealer
- Frederick Sanger, British Biochemist that twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one for his work on the structure of Insulin and another for his contribution to the possibilities of DNA sequencing
- Fredrick de Saram (1912–1983), Sri Lankan Sinhala army colonel, lawyer, and cricket captain
- Frederick Scherger, British Air Chief Marshal
- Federico Spinola, Italian naval commander in Spanish Habsburg service, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Sesimbra Bay, Battle of the Narrow Seas and Battle of Sluys
- Frederick W. Sturckow, engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut, and commercial spacecraft pilot
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, British jurist and Conservative politician, twice Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, British statesman who served as Governor of Queensland from 1905 to 1909, Governor of New South Wales from 1909 to 1913, and Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, where he was responsible for the creation of the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms
- Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, British imperial general who came to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War
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