Alaric
Alaric is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 192 births. Its best rank was 822nd, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1920.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020279 births
- Best rank
- #822in 2020
- Since 1949
- 3,754people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,754 boys have been named Alaric in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 279 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Alaric was the 822nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Alaric
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rhettpeak 2021
- Barrettpeak 2020
- Thorinpeak 2023
- Remypeak 2022
- Cedarpeak 2022
- Nashpeak 2021
- Kilianpeak 2023
- Macklinpeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.