Given name
Eadric
“a prosperous and lucky ruler”
Eadric is a variant of Edric. One English interpretation is “a prosperous and lucky ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eadric is a variant of Edric. One English interpretation is “a prosperous and lucky ruler.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Eadric is a variant of Edric. An origin associated with Edric is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs, built from Old English ēad + rīċe.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eadric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 29 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2016.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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