Given name
Roric
“the red queen”·“a red-haired man”
Roric is a variant of Rory. Interpretations include “the red queen” and “a red-haired man”. These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Roric is a variant of Rory. Interpretations include “the red queen” and “a red-haired man”. These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Roric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 29
- 29 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,504 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,504 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.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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