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Ulrik

#13,740 in 2025Boys' name

Heritage, homestead + ruler

Ulrik has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #13,740 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Ulrik, 2025

1 in 663,000

Ulrik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ulrik: meaning, origin, and history

Heritage, homestead + ruler

German

What Ulrik means

Ulrik means “heritage, homestead + ruler”, associated with uodal and rihhi.

Origin, language, and formation

Ulrik is used in Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ulric and Ulrich.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 boys were recorded with the name Ulrik between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,859 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,914 in 2020 to #13,740 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,548 in 2015 to #13,740 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 Ulrik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,740
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ulrik 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ulrik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ulriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ulrik was born before 2020 — so the typical Ulrik is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
69
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Ulrik 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
+360
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,826
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,192
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,859
2023

Spellings of Ulrik

Ulrik is not the most common spelling — Erik is, with 88.8% against Ulrik'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.

Ulrik around the world

Where Ulrik 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
    1987–2023
    #6,679
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #14
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2008
    #1,906
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1958–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Ulrik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,740
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,826
Best rank ever
#8,859
2023
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ulrik

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

AirikAlrikRurikUlricEdrikEmrikUlrickLorikAarikEmerikErrikAadrikAerikMarikUlrichJarikGarikRorikMerikEirikCedrikGerikZerikTerik

Sibling names for Ulrik

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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