How rare is the name Aric?

6,398 people in the United States have the first name Aric, about 1 in 47,207. It ranks #3,317 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

ARIC

#3,317

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,398
About
1 in 47,207
This common or more
82.1%
Who bears it

Of the 6,398 people named Aric, 68.3% reported their origin as White, 11.5% as Black and 10.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Aric peaked in 1977, when 265 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19462025
Peak year
1977
Births that year
265
In 2025*
24 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,631 babies have been given the name since 1946. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Aric by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,320. The largest share of babies named Aric, 33.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#8,55327
1950s#6,63579
1960s#3,055376
1970s#1,3201,970
1980s#1,8001,389
1990s#1,7921,835
2000s#3,0131,158
2010s#4,888613
2020s#7,793184
Baby boom 1946–642.8%
Generation X 1965–8031.6%
Millennials 1981–9633.7%
Generation Z 1997–1224.4%
2013 and later7.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Aric is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aric has been most common in Minnesota (3.1×), Iowa (2.2×), and Wisconsin (2.1×), and least common in Georgia (0.45×).

4,218 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Aric

1 other first name also has 6,398 people.

#3,317 Thang · 6,398

Either side of Aric

#3,315 Elyssa · 6,403#3,316 Frieda · 6,400#3,317 Thang · 6,398#3,319 Alesia · 6,397

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Aric, most common first.

#4,474 Aris · 4,157#6,833 Arik · 2,301#7,456 Arica · 2,047#14,685 Arick · 798#31,775 Ariz · 268#42,623 Arij · 168#52,605 Arric · 106

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