Aric
Last seen for girls in 1978 at #9,750 · #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 265 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,626since 1946
Aric over time
Rank among boys' names. Aric has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,249 | 24 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,321 | 24 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,566 | 32 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,533 | 32 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,242 | 36 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,136 | 36 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,808 | 44 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,546 | 50 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,270 | 58 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,167 | 63 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,212 | 61 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,256 | 59 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,225 | 58 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,003 | 70 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,017 | 67 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,778 | 83 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,797 | 83 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,516 | 107 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,669 | 91 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,339 | 122 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,343 | 112 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,335 | 110 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,305 | 107 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,160 | 122 | |
| 2001 | — | #997 | 153 | |
| 2000 | — | #983 | 151 | |
| 1999 | — | #988 | 143 | |
| 1998 | — | #837 | 175 | |
| 1997 | — | #843 | 169 | |
| 1996 | — | #821 | 175 | |
| 1995 | — | #772 | 193 | |
| 1994 | — | #792 | 178 | |
| 1993 | — | #761 | 189 | |
| 1992 | — | #720 | 205 | |
| 1991 | — | #725 | 195 | |
| 1990 | — | #697 | 213 | |
| 1989 | — | #748 | 175 | |
| 1988 | — | #731 | 167 | |
| 1987 | — | #785 | 138 | |
| 1986 | — | #789 | 132 | |
| 1985 | — | #768 | 133 | |
| 1984 | — | #735 | 140 | |
| 1983 | — | #895 | 96 | |
| 1982 | — | #871 | 104 | |
| 1981 | — | #741 | 138 | |
| 1980 | — | #671 | 166 | |
| 1979 | — | #622 | 190 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #581 | 210 |
| 1977 | — | #502 | 265 | |
| 1976 | — | #550 | 215 | |
| 1975 | — | #557 | 210 | |
| 1974 | — | #615 | 171 | |
| 1973 | — | #580 | 187 | |
| 1972 | — | #651 | 151 | |
| 1971 | — | #542 | 219 | |
| 1970 | — | #678 | 147 | |
| 1969 | — | #797 | 94 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,250 | 37 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,117 | 44 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,073 | 47 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,043 | 50 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,545 | 26 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,515 | 27 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,876 | 19 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,709 | 22 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,953 | 17 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,558 | 10 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
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| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aric! It came in at #2,919, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aric
- 72 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,249)
- 1,113 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #4,249)
- 2,037 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #4,249)
- Biggest jump: 453 spots in 1969 (#1,250 → #797)
- Biggest drop: 163 spots in 2002 (#997 → #1,160)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1977 at #502 (265 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1969–2001
- Highest: 1 in 6,201 boys born in 1977 were named Aric (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.8% of all boys named Aric (1,965) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 27 | #2,225 (1949) | #2,644 |
| 1950s | 79 | #1,709 (1959) | #2,741 |
| 1960s | 376 | #797 (1969) | #1,460 |
| 1970s | 1,965 | #502 (1977) | #588 |
| 1980s | 1,389 | #671 (1980) | #773 |
| 1990s | 1,835 | #697 (1990) | #796 |
| 2000s | 1,158 | #983 (2000) | #1,344 |
| 2010s | 613 | #1,778 (2010) | #2,228 |
| 2020s | 184 | #3,136 (2020) | #3,675 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aric in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 306,372 of them was named Aric, which outranked 15.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,725 names at #9,750; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 7,818 of them was named Aric, which outranked 91.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).