Friedrich

German variation of Frederick

Friedrich Origin and Meaning

The name Friedrich is a boy's name of German origin.

One of the most familiar German names, with an upright Prussian image. Friedrich might just have been out for long enough to start coming back in.

Friedrich Popularity

Famous People Named Friedrich

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    German philologist, philosopher, poet, and composer
  • Friedrich Hasenoehrl
    Austrian physicist
  • Friedrich Bessel
    German mathematician, astronomer
  • Friedrich Hund
    German physicist
  • Friedrich Schiller
    German poet
  • Friedrich Engels
    German Marxist theorist
  • Friedrich Hayek
    Austrian,British economist
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
    German philosopher
  • Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
    Dutch botanist
  • Friedrich Hölderlin
    German Romantic poet
  • Friedrich Bergius
    winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • Gero Friedrich Johann
    son of Prince Daniel & Princess Sandra of Saxony

Friedrich in Pop Culture

  • Friedrich von Trapp
    second eldest child in "The Sound of Music"