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Edric vs Edrick

American parents have registered 2,057 Edricks since 1880, against 1,732 Edrics. Edrick is still ahead, with 90 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Edric against Edrick, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Edric Edrick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Edrick for 58 years and Edric for 20 years. The lead changed hands 27 times.

18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Edric Edrick
Total US births 1,7322,057
Most in one year 137112
Babies in 2025 3690
Estimated living today 1,7002,000
Median age today 1518
Peak year 20182018
Best rank 1,324th boys1,521st boys
Rank in 2025 3,240th1,778th
First recorded 19141936
Girls / boys 0 / 1,7320 / 2,057

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Edricks alive today are over 18; half the Edrics are over 15. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Edric Edrick
England and Wales 9018
France 3535

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Edric and Edrick.