Given name & surname · also Swedish
Alarik
Alarik is a masculine given name from Swedish, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Alarik comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Swedish Alarik, from Proto-Germanic *Alarīks.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alarik through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 305
- 305 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,211 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,211 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 11.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alarik’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Alarik has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alaric. In Norwegian usage, Alarik has a conventional equivalent in the Swedish form Adalrik.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alarik
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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