Edric
Edric was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,262 among boys’ names; 1,732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Edric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Edric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Edric mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Edric is “a male given name from Old English.” Its etymology gives the senses “wealth, riches” (*audaz) and “king, ruler” (*rīks).
From Old English Ēadrīc, from Proto-West Germanic *Audarīk, from Proto-Germanic *Audarīks, from *audaz (“wealth, riches”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Edric?
#3,262 among boys’ names, 2025
Edric fell from #2,985 in 2015 to #3,262 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 21.1 per million.
137 babies in 2018, the peak
Edric peaked in 2018, when 137 boys were given it, #1,325 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,262 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,103 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,419 | 32.7 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,196 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,929 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,328 | 33.6 |
| 2019 | 79 | #1,890 | 44.0 |
| 2018 | 137 | #1,325 | 75.4 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,573 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,849 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,985 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,319 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,903 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,428 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,959 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,650 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,499 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,581 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,626 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,815 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,257 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,095 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,210 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,073 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,747 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,959 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,403 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,316 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,042 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,134 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,590 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,138 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,388 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,166 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,859 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,475 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,711 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,250 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,040 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,577 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,113 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,636 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,824 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,358 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,437 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,016 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,008 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,228 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,289 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,333 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,233 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,847 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,892 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,714 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,835 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,225 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,581 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,485 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,831 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,055 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,712 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,750 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,749 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,158 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,716 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,652 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,144 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,037 | 3.9 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,878 | 2.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,568 | 3.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,334 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,383 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Edric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Edric has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Edric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Edric, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,732 Americans ever recorded as Edric. The median Edric alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,243 people named Edric (7 women and girls, 1,236 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,357 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 44 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 229 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 243 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 392 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 742 |
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 Edric born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,353 | 0.8× |
Where Edric is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Edric is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 1.1 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 Edric 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,272 babies since 1880, Edric is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 137 babies (26%), again the second 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 Edric
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 Edric and names like it
- Compare Edric and EdrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEdric peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Edric since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Edric: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Edric.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Edric alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.