girls:
5 births since 1978
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
7.6k births since 1946
#1358 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.6k births since 1946
#3098 (60th percentile)
The name Aric is the #3,098 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,582 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 60.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,358 (70.4% percentile) for all time with 7,577 births since 1946. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1978.
Aric first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for boys and 1978 for girls). Birth data for Aric is available in 74 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (74 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aric has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Aric reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 34.6% percentile (ranked #441) with 155 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 155 births per million (ranked 34.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1994, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aric ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 11.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aric reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #756) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aric".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Aric. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.8% confident that Aric is pronounced as EH-rihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-rihk, at 40.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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