Translation Services in Frederick, MD

Languages spoken in Frederick

26.3% of Frederick residents age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and 9.4% speak English less than “very well.” Spanish leads, followed by French, Haitian Creole, or Cajun and Tagalog, including Filipino.

26.3%speak a language other than English at home

Language spoken at home	Residents	Speak English less than “very well”
Spanish	12,421	4,817
Other languages	2,110	520
Other Indo-European languages	1,565	412
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages	1,068	338
French, Haitian Creole, or Cajun	810	n/a
Tagalog, including Filipino	568	n/a

Spanish 12,4214,817 speak English less than “very well”
Other languages 2,110520 speak English less than “very well”
Other Indo-European languages 1,565412 speak English less than “very well”
Other Asian and Pacific Island languages 1,068338 speak English less than “very well”
French, Haitian Creole, or Cajun 810
Tagalog, including Filipino 568

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates for Frederick city (tables C16001, C16002, B05002, B05006) (opens in a new tab). Figures with a wide margin of error are not shown.

Frederick by the numbers

Residents: 83,395
Speak a language other than English at home: 20,583 26.3%
Speak English less than “very well”: 7,323 9.4%
Limited-English households: 1,210 3.6%
Born outside the U.S.: 16,603 19.9%

Language services in Frederick

Where Frederick residents born abroad come from

Countries of birth point to the languages behind the Census groups above, and to the documents (birth certificates, diplomas, court records) that arrive for translation.

El Salvador3,350
Mexico938
India823
Philippines529

Detailed languages in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area

The Census Bureau publishes individual languages for metro areas, not for cities. These are the most-spoken languages other than English in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area.

Spanish900,618
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)97,893
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages95,597
French (incl. Cajun)72,454
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa66,725
Korean65,801
Vietnamese61,437
Arabic59,264

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 2024 1-year, table B16001, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area.

Language access rules in Maryland

Court interpreter program: Maryland Judiciary Court Interpreter Program, established in 1996 and reported by Access to Justice in the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts, which recruits, tests, and trains interpreters, provides certified and qualified foreign language and ASL interpreters, and maintains the Court Interpreter Registry of certified and qualified interpreters.
Court-certified languages: The Judiciary offers certification exams twice a year in 14 languages (Arabic, Amharic, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Cantonese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese), with certified interpreters currently available in 12 of them; in other languages courts rely on qualified Registry interpreters, and the Registry lists 465 interpreters in 72 languages.
The rule: Md. Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings 9-114 requires the court, on application, to appoint a qualified interpreter when a party, witness, or victim is deaf or cannot readily understand or communicate spoken English, with costs paid by the county where the proceedings began unless taxed as costs; Maryland Rule 1-333 requires courts to appoint certified interpreters when possible, and Judiciary policy permits qualified and non-Registry interpreters when no certified or qualified Registry interpreter is available.
Equal Access to Public Services Act: Md. Code, State Government 10-1103 requires covered state departments, agencies, and programs to take reasonable steps to give limited English proficient people equal access to public services and to translate vital documents into any language spoken by an LEP population that makes up 3 percent of the population within the area served by a local office.
Language access plans and reporting: Under State Government 10-1103, covered agencies, including the State Police, Comptroller, Maryland Transit Administration, State Department of Education, and each principal department, must update language access plans every two years, report annually by September 30 to the Maryland Language Advisory Group, and fully implement the law by July 1, 2028.
Language services at no cost: State Government 10-1102 defines equal access to include language assistance that ensures accurate, timely, and effective communication at no cost to the individual and is not significantly restricted, delayed, or of lower quality than services for English-proficient people.
Translated IEPs and IFSPs: Md. Code, Education 8-405(f)(4) requires school personnel, on request, to provide a completed IEP or IFSP translated into a parent's native language within 30 days when that language is spoken by more than 1 percent of the local school system's students.
Most requested court languages: In fiscal year 2025, the most requested circuit court languages were Spanish (54 percent of assignments), ASL, Amharic, Arabic, French, and Mandarin, and the courts received first-time requests for Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Taishanese, Oromo, Malayalam, and Ukrainian.
Refugee program: The Maryland Office for Refugees and Asylees (MORA), in the Department of Human Services, served 11,028 participants from 76 countries in fiscal year 2025, with 45 percent in suburban Washington (primarily Prince George's and Montgomery counties) and 23 percent in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

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Frederick questions

What languages are spoken in Frederick?

26.3% of Frederick residents age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, and 9.4% speak English less than “very well.” Spanish leads, followed by French, Haitian Creole, or Cajun and Tagalog, including Filipino. The most common countries of birth among residents born abroad are El Salvador, Mexico, and India.

How many Frederick households have limited English?

1,210 of 33,584 households (3.6%), according to the Census Bureau: households in which no one age 14 or older speaks only English or speaks English “very well.” These are the households most likely to need an interpreter or translated documents.

How are court interpreters credentialed in Maryland?

Maryland Judiciary Court Interpreter Program, established in 1996 and reported by Access to Justice in the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts, which recruits, tests, and trains interpreters, provides certified and qualified foreign language and ASL interpreters, and maintains the Court Interpreter Registry of certified and qualified interpreters. The Judiciary offers certification exams twice a year in 14 languages (Arabic, Amharic, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Cantonese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese), with certified interpreters currently available in 12 of them; in other languages courts rely on qualified Registry interpreters, and the Registry lists 465 interpreters in 72 languages.

Do you provide on-site interpreters in Frederick?

Yes. We schedule interpreters in person in Frederick and across Maryland, and by phone and video nationwide, in 250+ languages including Spanish and ASL. Book less common languages as early as you can.

Do you provide conference and meeting interpreters in Frederick?

Yes. We staff conferences, conventions, trade shows, seminars, corporate training, and client meetings in Frederick with simultaneous or consecutive interpreters. For simultaneous interpreting, our own technicians deliver, run, and strike the booths, transmitters, and receivers, shipped from our own inventory.