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 [ 4 syll. fre-de-ri-ca, fr-eder-ica ] The girl name Frederica is pronounced FREHDerIYKah KEY. Frederica's language of origin is Germanic. It is predominantly used in English and Portuguese. The meaning of Frederica is 'peaceful ruler'. Two-element name derived from fridu and ric which are of the meanings 'peace, protection, safety' and 'rich, powerful, ruler' respectively. Frederica is the feminine form of the English Frederick. The name Frederica is widely used; it has 43 forms that are used in both English and foreign languages. English forms of the name include Farica, Fredda, Freddi, Freddy, Frederika (used in German and Scandinavian too), Fredi, Fredie, Fredrica, Fredrika, and Frida (used in German, Hungarian, and Spanish too). Other English forms include the short forms Fred, Freda, and Rica (used in German too), the pet forms Freddie, Ricki, Rickie, Ricky, and Rikki, and the spelling variant Fredericka. Forms of Frederica used in foreign languages include the Czech Bed'ka, the Czech Bedriska, the Czech Beduna, the Czech Béda, the Italian Federica, the Czech Fedriska, the German Frede, the Dutch and German Frederike, the Scandinavian Frederikke, the French Frederique, the French Frédérique, the Hungarian Frici, the German Friederika, the German Friederike, the German Fritze, the German Frizinn, the Polish Fryda, the Polish Fryderyka, the Dutch Richela, the Scandinavian Rikke, the Czech Riska, and the Romanian Viorica. The pet forms Fritzi (German) and Ricca (German) are other foreign variants. Frederica is a rare baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1911, 0.005% of baby girls were named Frederica. It was #967 in rank then. The baby name has experienced a decline in popularity since then, and is used on an infrequent scale today. In 2008, out of the family of girl names directly related to Frederica, the English, German, Hungarian, and Spanish Frida was the most regularly used. Baby names that sound like Frederica include the English Fredericka, the English, German, and Scandinavian Frederika, the Dutch and German Frederike, the Scandinavian Frederikke, the Polish Fryderyka, the English Fredrica, the English Fredrika, the German Friederika, the German Friederike, the French Frederique, and the French Frédérique. KEY: Pronunciation for Frederica: F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
