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Wulfric

#13,801 in 2025Boys' name

Wolf + king, ruler

Wulfric has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #13,801 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Wulfric, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wulfric: meaning, origin, and history

Wolf + king, ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wulfric means

Wulfric means “wolf + king, ruler”, associated with wulf and rīċ.

Origin, language, and formation

Wulfric is used in Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Wulfric is pronounced /ˈwulfˌriːk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 86 boys were recorded with the name Wulfric between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2022; its best national rank was #7,229 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,690 in 2020 to #13,801 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 Wulfric?

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
#13,801
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Wulfrics were born

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

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Wulfric 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
−5,528
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,111
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2022 (12)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,229
2022

Spellings of Wulfric

Wulfric is not the most common spelling — Wilfrid is, with 70.3% against Wulfric's 4.3%.

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.

Wulfric around the world

Where Wulfric 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
    2017–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Wulfric by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,801
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,111
Best rank ever
#7,229
2022
Peak year
2022
12 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Wulfric

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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