Eadric

Boys' name

Wealth, riches + king, ruler, through *Audarīk

Eadric has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2016, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Eadric, 2022

1 in 677,000

Eadric over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eadric: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, riches + king, ruler, through *Audarīk

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eadric means

Eadric belongs to the name family reached through Eadric → *Audarīk → *Audarīks. Its meaning is “wealth, riches + king, ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eadric is used in Old English.

Eadric comes through Proto-West Germanic *Audarīk and Proto-Germanic *Audarīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include *Audarīk and *Audarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Eadric is pronounced /ˈæ͜ɑːdˌriːk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Eadric between 2016 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,268 in 2016.

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.

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How common is Eadric?

Eadric had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only: 1 in 349,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Eadric 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eadric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eadrics were born

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

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 58.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 29; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 58.6% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Eadric 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: —; 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 2016 (11)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,268; 2016

Spellings of Eadric

Eadric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 92.8% against Eadric's <0.01%.

Eric92.8%888,891
Cedric4.4%42,104
Aric0.80%7,626
Patric0.32%3,040
Kendric0.26%2,530
Edrick0.21%2,057
Dedric0.19%1,863
Edric0.18%1,732

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.

Eadric 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: —
Best rank ever: #7,268; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 11 that year
First recorded: 2016
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 29
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Eadric

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

Alyric Roric Aymeric Landric Aedric Aydric Leoric Sihtric Henric Terric Eldric Wulfric Aleric Beric Cyric Airic Padric Hendric Mavric Kyric Ketric Eaden Jerric Auric

Sibling names for Eadric

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

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Ayesha Henley Annalee Raylee

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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