Alaric
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: American; the ruler of all; feminine form of Alaric
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aləɹɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alaric is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 147K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 252K
- GYGuyana1 in 107K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
2,260 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic name from elements meaning 'all, whole' + 'ruler'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
How Alaric is read(measured from records)
Alaric is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English65%
American; the ruler of all; feminine form of Alaric
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A historic king of the Visigoths.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French19%
Germanic name from elements meaning 'all, whole' + 'ruler'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
the elements ala all, entire + ric power. Vars.: Alari, Alric; Hal(l)ary; Aury, Auric.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Origine germanique, « tout-puissant ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Spanish5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Alaric in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alaric counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,260 | 1 in 147K | 2.2K | Alaric | 200 |
| FR France | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 154K | 975 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 252K | listed | Alaric | 83 |
| PH Philippines | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 455K | — | Alaric | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 362K | — | Alaric | 14 |
| BE Belgium | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Alaric | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Alaric | 29 |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | 1 |
2,260 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alaric is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English (rare): from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ala all or ali stranger + r c power, ruler, which was introduced to Britain in this form by the Normans. The first element may also in part derive from a contracted form of the element adal noble. The Blessed Alaricus or Adalricus (d. 975) was a Swabian prince who became a monk at the monastery of Einsiedeln in Switzerland.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alaric Alexander Wattsb. 1797GBBritish poet and journalist (1797–1864)
- Alarico Ribeirob. 1876BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian writer and poet (1876-1905)
- Alaric Jacobb. 1909GBBritish writer (1909-1995)
- Alarico Gattiab. 1927ITnot in their usual nameItalian comics artist and illustrator (1927–2022)
- Alaric Hopgoodb. 1931NZNew Zealand geologist
- Alarico Mariani Marinib. 1931ITnot in their usual nameItalian lawyer (born 1931)
- Alaric Jansb. 1949USAmerican film and theater composer (born 1949)
- Alarico Barbaglib. 1977ITnot in their usual nameItalian medievalist (born 1977)
- Alaric Naudéb. 1988AULinguist; Professor, University of Suwon; Doctor of Education; Doctor of Social Sciences
- Alaric Bassonb. 1996ZASouth African swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #6,926 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 975 | #851 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 205 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31 | #6,926 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 7 | #587 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Alaric come from?
- Germanic name from elements meaning 'all, whole' + 'ruler'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Alaric?
- A machine transcription gives /aləɹɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Alaric mean?
- In English, American; the ruler of all; feminine form of Alaric
- Is Alaric a male or female name?
- Alaric is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Alaric have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Alaric, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alaric.
- Where is Alaric most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alaric is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 107 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alaric?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,260 people named Alaric in 2020, about 1 in 147 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alaric”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.