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Aric

#4,258 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Eric

Aric has been given to 7,631 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #4,258 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 265 recorded.

Babies named Aric, 2025

1 in 138,000

Aric over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aric: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Eric

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aric means

Aric is a variant of Eric.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aric → Eric. The family’s meaning is “ruler”, recorded in English with the source elements ríkr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eric.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,626 boys were recorded with the name Aric between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 265 in 1977; its best national rank was #502 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,139 in 2020 to #4,258 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,212 in 2015 to #4,258 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Aric between 1978 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1978; its best national rank was #9,863 in 1978.

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 Aric?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,258
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aric 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arics were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aric was born before 1989 — so the typical Aric is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,599
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (1,965).

Is Aric 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
+72
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,119
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,046
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1977 (265)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#502
1977

Spellings of Aric

Aric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 42.1% against Aric's 0.36%.

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 Aric is used

Across 1910–2025, Aric was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 36,567 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 20,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 20,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 25,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 25,000

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

Aric around the world

Where Aric 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Aric

People whose public names include Aric, 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.

Aric in other languages

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

AriArikEric

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

Aric by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,258
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,119
Best rank ever
#502
1977
Peak year
1977
265 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,626
Count in 2025
24

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,863
1978
Peak year
1978
5 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aric

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

ArianArisArikArieArinAriesAriArielArionArifAriaDericLyricAriusArienArioAlaricEdricArivArizFredricArishAriasAriyan

Names with a curve like Aric

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

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Sibling names for Aric

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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