# Aric (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aric/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,631 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,626 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 18, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | 9,865 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 67 | 2,018 |
| 2012 | 70 | 2,004 |
| 2013 | 58 | 2,228 |
| 2014 | 59 | 2,257 |
| 2015 | 61 | 2,212 |
| 2016 | 63 | 2,171 |
| 2017 | 58 | 2,273 |
| 2018 | 50 | 2,548 |
| 2019 | 44 | 2,810 |
| 2020 | 36 | 3,140 |
| 2021 | 36 | 3,246 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3,539 |
| 2023 | 32 | 3,571 |
| 2024 | 24 | 4,333 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,259 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 2,357 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Aric

- Aric Holman, American basketball player (born 1997)
- Daron Hagen, American composer, conductor, pianist, librettist, stage director

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.