Aric
Aric was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,258 among boys’ names; 7,631 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,160 Americans named Aric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aric?
#4,258 among boys’ names, 2025
Aric fell from #2,212 in 2015 to #4,258 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.8 to 14.1 per million.
265 babies in 1977, the peak
Aric peaked in 1977, when 265 boys were given it, #502 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,258 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,330 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,569 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,537 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,244 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,139 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,809 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,547 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,272 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,171 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,212 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,227 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,003 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 83 | #1,778 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 83 | #1,796 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 91 | #1,670 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,340 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,342 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 110 | #1,333 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,304 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,158 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 153 | #996 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 151 | #981 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 143 | #987 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 175 | #836 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 169 | #841 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 175 | #819 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 193 | #769 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 178 | #790 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 189 | #759 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 205 | #718 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 195 | #722 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 213 | #695 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 175 | #745 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 167 | #730 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 138 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 132 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 133 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 140 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 96 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 104 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 138 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 166 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 190 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 210 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 265 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 215 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 210 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 171 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 187 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 151 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 219 | #542 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 147 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 94 | #798 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,251 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,118 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,075 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,043 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,546 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,695 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,515 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,878 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,712 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,957 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,500 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,823 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,794 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,927 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aric has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aric, and how old are they?
7,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 7,631 Americans ever recorded as Aric. The median Aric alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 6,398 people named Aric (16 women and girls, 6,382 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,115 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 573 |
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 Aric born?
The states with the most babies named Aric are California, Texas and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 803 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 618 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 348 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 334 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 293 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 246 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 235 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 176 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 139 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 135 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Aric is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aric is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1946 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Aric 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,746 babies since 1880, Aric is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 81 babies (30%), the second 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 Aric
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 Aric and names like it
- Compare Aric and ArikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAric peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aric since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Aric.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aric alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.