Meaning not yet researched.
Aric: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #502 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #502 in 1977; #4,259 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aric in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,259 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #502.
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Aric: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #502 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 265 (1977).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Aric, making it the 4,259th most common boys’ name of the year, up 74 places from #4,333 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 24 boys named Aric in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #502, reached in 1977. That year also had the most boys given the name: 265. For comparison, it was #2,212 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aric in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 7 babies. In all, 7,631 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,970 babies named Aric.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 399 US boys were named Aric; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eric (893,184 babies since 1880), Ari (28,254 babies since 1880) and Arik (2,613 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arick, Aaric and Arek are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arick (942), Aaric (575), Arek (380), Aarik (236), Arrick (226), Aeric (143), Ariq (95), Aerik (84), Airik (69), Aerick (49), Aurick (41), Aryk (35), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aric in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 24 | #4,259 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,333 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,571 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,539 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,246 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,140 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,810 |
| 2018 | — | — | 50 | #2,548 |
| 2017 | — | — | 58 | #2,273 |
| 2016 | — | — | 63 | #2,171 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,212 |
| 2014 | — | — | 59 | #2,257 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,228 |
| 2012 | — | — | 70 | #2,004 |
| 2011 | — | — | 67 | #2,018 |
| 2010 | — | — | 83 | #1,779 |
| 2009 | — | — | 83 | #1,797 |
| 2008 | — | — | 107 | #1,516 |
| 2007 | — | — | 91 | #1,670 |
| 2006 | — | — | 122 | #1,340 |
| 2005 | — | — | 112 | #1,343 |
| 2004 | — | — | 110 | #1,335 |
| 2003 | — | — | 107 | #1,305 |
| 2002 | — | — | 122 | #1,160 |
| 2001 | — | — | 153 | #997 |
| 2000 | — | — | 151 | #983 |
| 1999 | — | — | 143 | #989 |
| 1998 | — | — | 175 | #837 |
| 1997 | — | — | 169 | #843 |
| 1996 | — | — | 175 | #821 |
| 1995 | — | — | 193 | #772 |
| 1994 | — | — | 178 | #792 |
| 1993 | — | — | 189 | #761 |
| 1992 | — | — | 205 | #720 |
| 1991 | — | — | 195 | #726 |
| 1990 | — | — | 213 | #697 |
| 1989 | — | — | 175 | #748 |
| 1988 | — | — | 167 | #731 |
| 1987 | — | — | 138 | #785 |
| 1986 | — | — | 132 | #789 |
| 1985 | — | — | 133 | #768 |
| 1984 | — | — | 140 | #735 |
| 1983 | — | — | 96 | #895 |
| 1982 | — | — | 104 | #871 |
| 1981 | — | — | 138 | #741 |
| 1980 | — | — | 166 | #672 |
| 1979 | — | — | 190 | #622 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,865 | 210 | #581 |
| 1977 | — | — | 265 | #502 |
| 1976 | — | — | 215 | #550 |
| 1975 | — | — | 210 | #557 |
| 1974 | — | — | 171 | #615 |
| 1973 | — | — | 187 | #580 |
| 1972 | — | — | 151 | #651 |
| 1971 | — | — | 219 | #542 |
| 1970 | — | — | 147 | #678 |
| 1969 | — | — | 94 | #798 |
| 1968 | — | — | 37 | #1,251 |
| 1967 | — | — | 44 | #1,118 |
| 1966 | — | — | 47 | #1,075 |
| 1965 | — | — | 50 | #1,043 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,547 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,696 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,516 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,879 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,694 |
| 1959 | — | — | 22 | #1,713 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,958 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,013 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,501 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,572 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,824 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,683 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,229 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,795 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #2,928 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).