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Ulric

#10,591 in 2025Boys' name

Heritage, homestead + ruler

Ulric has been given to 513 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #10,591 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Ulric, 2025

1 in 474,000

Ulric over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulric: meaning, origin, and history

Heritage, homestead + ruler

Germanic languages

What Ulric means

Ulric means “heritage, homestead + ruler”, associated with uodil and rihhi.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old High German uodil (“heritage, homestead”) + rihhi (“ruler”); compare German Ulrich. English sources also suggest Old English wulf (“wolf”) + ric (“ruler”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ulric (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Ulric is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Ulric comes through Old High German uodil and Old English wulf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ulrich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ulric is pronounced /ʊl.ɹɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 513 boys were recorded with the name Ulric between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,424 in 1925.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,519 in 2020 to #10,591 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,293 in 2015 to #10,591 in 2025.

How common is Ulric?

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
#10,591
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulric 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 Ulric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulrics were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulric was born before 1979 — so the typical Ulric is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
354
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Ulric 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
+3,508
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−72
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,298
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2021 (15)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,424
1925

Spellings of Ulric

Ulric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 96.7% against Ulric's 0.06%.

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 Ulric is used

Across 1910–2025, Ulric was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Ulric has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ulric around the world

Where Ulric 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
    1901–2024
    #6,349
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1994–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ulric by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,591
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 72
Best rank ever
#2,424
1925
Peak year
2021
15 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
513
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Ulric

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

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Sibling names for Ulric

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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