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Ulrick

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Ulrick has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1987, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Ulrick, 1999

1 in 615,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulrick: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ulrick means

Ulrick is a given name.

The naming story behind Ulrick

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Ulrick in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 409.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ger. Teu. noble ruler”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Ulrick, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 boys were recorded with the name Ulrick between 1969 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,380 in 1969.

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.

How common is Ulrick?

Ulrick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 615,000
6 of 3,692,373 births
Among boys only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,561 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulrick 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 1999 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 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ulrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulrick was born before 1981 — so the typical Ulrick is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
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Choose a decade

1980s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Ulrick 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (8)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,380
1969

Spellings of Ulrick

Ulrick is not the most common spelling — Rick is, with 43.2% against Ulrick's 0.04%.

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.

Ulrick around the world

Where Ulrick 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
    1972–2025
    #4,270
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

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.

Ulrick 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
#4,380
1969
Peak year
1987
8 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ulrick

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

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Sibling names for Ulrick

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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