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Godric

#10,029 in 2025Boys' name

God + king, ruler

Godric has been given to 387 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #10,029 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Godric, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Godric: meaning, origin, and history

God + king, ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Godric means

Godric means “god + king, ruler”, associated with god and rīk.

Origin, language, and formation

Godric is used in Old English.

Godric comes through Proto-West Germanic *Godarīk.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Godric is pronounced /ˈɡodˌriːk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 387 boys were recorded with the name Godric between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,936 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,951 in 2020 to #10,029 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,936 in 2015 to #10,029 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 Godric?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,029
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Godric 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Godric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Godrics were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
69.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
387
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 69.0% of all recorded uses (267).

Is Godric 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
−3,744
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,078
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,093
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.17×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.5%
Peak was 2015 (40)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,936
2015

Spellings of Godric

Godric is not the most common spelling — Cedric is, with 67.9% against Godric's 0.62%.

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 Godric is used

Across 1910–2025, Godric was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,395,280 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Godric has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Godric around the world

Where Godric 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    2012–2016
    #5,736
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

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.

Godric by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,029
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,078
Best rank ever
#2,936
2015
Peak year
2015
40 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
387
Count in 2025
7

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

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Sibling names for Godric

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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