Fredrick: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Spelled Fredrick, the surname still points back to Frederick. Taken at its root, Fredrick points to “Peaceful ruler”. Without the “e” of Frederick, Fredrick is a simpler written form of the same name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Fredricks, Friederick and Fredrich.

The 2010 census count for Fredrick in the United States was 6,865, good for rank 5,097.

Arms linked to Frederick and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Fredrick family name pack.