Alaric
Alaric was given to 205 boys in 2025, #1,063 among boys’ names; 3,961 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Alaric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alaric mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alaric is “a male given name from Gothic.” Its etymology gives the senses “all” (𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃) and “ruler” (𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃).
From Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls, “all”) + 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (reiks, “ruler”), from Proto-Germanic *Alarīks.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alaric?
#1,063 among boys’ names, 2025
Alaric rose from #1,077 in 2015 to #1,063 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.12 per 1,000.
279 babies in 2020, the peak
Alaric peaked in 2020, when 279 boys were given it, #822 among boys’ names. The 205 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 205 | #1,063 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 193 | #1,108 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 201 | #1,073 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 253 | #913 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 274 | #855 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 279 | #822 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 251 | #875 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 214 | #971 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 203 | #996 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 180 | #1,090 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 183 | #1,077 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 153 | #1,201 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,420 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,710 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,477 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,221 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,135 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,981 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,563 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,012 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 32 | #2,990 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,258 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,795 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 29 | #2,988 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,298 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #2,976 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,907 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,097 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,762 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,322 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,200 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,705 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,522 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,071 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,703 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,033 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,618 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,069 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,170 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,820 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,279 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,795 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,860 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,835 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,131 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,792 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,757 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,416 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,021 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaric has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alaric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaric, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,961 Americans ever recorded as Alaric. The median Alaric alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,260 people named Alaric (31 women and girls, 2,229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,557 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 82 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 236 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 269 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 586 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,690 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Alaric born?
The states with the most babies named Alaric are Texas, Florida and California, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,170 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 14 | #959 | 0.7× |
| California | 12 | #1,442 | 0.5× |
| New York | 11 | #1,057 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 11 | #753 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #851 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 9 | #685 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #875 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,017 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 7 | #774 | 0.9× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alaric with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,977 babies since 1880, Alaric is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 205 of their 251 babies (82%), again the most given.
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 Alaric
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 Alaric and names like it
- Compare Alaric and AlarikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlaric peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaric since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Alaric.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaric alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.