Given name & surname · also Old Norse
Alrik
“elf-ruler”
Alrik is a masculine given name from Old Norse (ultimately Old High German), meaning “elf-ruler.” It is used in Swedish.
Original Old NorseAlfrekr
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Alrik comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Old High German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Swedish usage, Alrik developed from Alfrekr.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alrik through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 42 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,107 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,107 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alrik’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Alrik developed from the Old Norse form Alfrekr. In Swedish usage, Alrik has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alaric. In Norwegian usage, Alrik has a conventional equivalent in the Swedish form Adalrik.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alrik has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Alrik comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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