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Alarik

#7,207 in 2025Boys' name

All + king, ruler, through *Alarīks

Alarik has been given to 305 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #7,207 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Alarik, 2025

1 in 301,000

Alarik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alarik: meaning, origin, and history

All + king, ruler, through *Alarīks

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alarik means

Alarik belongs to the name family reached through Alarik → *Alarīks. Its meaning is “all + king, ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alarik is used in Finnish.

Alarik comes through Swedish Alarik and Proto-Germanic *Alarīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include *Alarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Alarik is pronounced /ˈɑlɑrik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 305 boys were recorded with the name Alarik between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,257 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,348 in 2020 to #7,207 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,546 in 2015 to #7,207 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alarik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,207
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alarik 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alarik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alariks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alarik was born before 2019 — so the typical Alarik is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (148).

Is Alarik 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
−363
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,859
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,661
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 2019 (35)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,257
2019

Spellings of Alarik

Alarik is not the most common spelling — Clark is, with 46.5% against Alarik's 0.28%.

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 Alarik is used

Across 1910–2025, Alarik was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,205,769 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

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. Alarik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alarik around the world

Where Alarik 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
    2014–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • France
    2014–2014
    #5,009
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Alarik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,207
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,859
Best rank ever
#3,257
2019
Peak year
2019
35 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
305
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Alarik

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

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Sibling names for Alarik

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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