Given name
Eldrick
“an old, wise ruler”
Eldrick is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “an old, wise ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “an old, wise ruler.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eldrick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 430
- 430 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,558 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +32%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,558 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 357 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eldrick’s family of names
Eldrick has a related form in Eldric. Eldrick has a related form in Eldrich. Eldrick has a related form in Eldrik.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eldrick
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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