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Alaric

#1,063 in 2025Boys' name

All + ruler

Alaric has been given to 3,961 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #1,063 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 279 recorded.

Babies named Alaric, 2025

1 in 16,200

Alaric over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alaric: meaning, origin, and history

All + ruler

Gothic

What Alaric means

Alaric means “all + ruler”, associated with 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 and 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls, “all”) + 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (reiks, “ruler”), from Proto-Germanic *Alarīks.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Alaric (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Alaric is used in English and Catalan. Its origins include Gothic.

Alaric comes through Gothic *𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 and Proto-Germanic *Alarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Alaric is pronounced [ə.ləˈɾik].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,961 boys were recorded with the name Alaric between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 279 in 2020; its best national rank was #822 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #822 in 2020 to #1,063 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,077 in 2015 to #1,063 in 2025.

How common is Alaric?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,200
205 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,330
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,063
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alaric sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,210 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alaric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alarics were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alaric was born before 2017 — so the typical Alaric is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,954
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (1,479).

Is Alaric rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−241
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+14
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.5%
Peak was 2020 (279)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#822
2020

Spellings of Alaric

Alaric is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 50.2% against Alaric's 6.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alaric is used

Across 2016–2025, Alaric was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 8,381 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

124 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 4,167
  2. 2Missouri1 in 4,348
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 4,348
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 4,545
  5. 5Kansas1 in 4,762
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 5,263
  7. 7Washington1 in 5,263
  8. 8Ohio1 in 6,250

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Alaric around the world

Where Alaric ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #988
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Alaric

People whose public names include Alaric, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alaric in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alaric. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlrikAldricAlarich

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alaric by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,063
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 241
Best rank ever
#822
2020
Peak year
2020
279 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,961
Count in 2025
205

Names similar to Alaric

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Alaric

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alaric, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alaric

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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