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Auric

Boys' name

From French Auric; literal meaning unconfirmed

Auric has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Auric, 2024

1 in 557,000

Auric over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Auric: meaning, origin, and history

From French Auric; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Auric means

Auric is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Auric is used in English.

Auric comes through French Auric.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Auric between 2008 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2008; its best national rank was #11,080 in 2024.

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 Auric?

Auric had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Auric 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Auric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aurics were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Auric was born before 2016 — so the typical Auric is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Auric 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (6)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,080
2024

Spellings of Auric

Auric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 80.3% against Auric's <0.01%.

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.

Auric around the world

Where Auric 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.

  • France
    2001–2010
    #5,495
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Auric by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,080
2024
Peak year
2008
6 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Auric

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

AurikAuraAurianRoricAuroAurenAurumAuriAurynAureusAurelAuroraAlyricAurielAurashAurieKyricEnricAurickAurionAureoAurinGericBeric

Sibling names for Auric

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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