Given name · also French

Childeric

Childeric is a masculine given name from French, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

Original FrenchChildéric

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Childeric comes from French, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From French Childéric, from Frankish *Hildirīk, from Latin Childericus, from Proto-Germanic *Hildirīks.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Childeric’s family of names

In English usage, Childeric was borrowed from the French form Childéric.

Walk Childeric’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Childeric’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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