Aaric
Aaric was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,246 among boys’ names; 575 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaric?
#8,246 among boys’ names, 2025
Aaric fell from #3,775 in 2015 to #8,246 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 5.3 per million.
35 babies in 2016, the peak
Aaric peaked in 2016, when 35 boys were given it, #3,229 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,246 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,761 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,862 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,336 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,293 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,552 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,223 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,376 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,229 | 18.4 |
| 2015 | 28 | #3,775 | 14.6 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 25 | #4,012 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,978 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,891 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,354 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,248 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,721 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,820 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,618 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,861 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,274 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,517 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,389 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,383 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,308 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #3,981 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,460 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,105 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,129 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,495 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,767 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,354 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,229 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,817 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,899 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #6,945 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,920 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,906 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,591 | 4.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #4,984 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaric has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aaric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaric, and how old are they?
An estimated 565 Americans named Aaric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 468 people named Aaric (0 women and girls, 468 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 516 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Aaric?
Aaric is a less common spelling of Aric: SSA has recorded 575 Aaric and 7,631 Aric since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,450 babies since 1880, Aaric is the fourth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 74 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaric
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aaric and names like it
- Compare Aaric and AricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Aaric.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aaric alive today were born 1997-2012.
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