Given name
Godric
“one who rules with God”
Godric is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “one who rules with God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who rules with God.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Godarīk, built from Proto-West Germanic *god (“god”) + *rīk (“king, ruler”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Godric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 387
- 387 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 40 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,033 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −35%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,033 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 35.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 40 in 2015.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Godric’s family of names
Godric has a related form in Goderic. Godric has a related form in Goderick. Godric has a related form in Goderik.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Godrickvariant
- Goderykvariant
- Goderikvariant
- Goderycvariant
- Godericvariant
- Goderyckvariant
- Goderickvariant
- Godryckvariant
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People named Godric
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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