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Elric

The boy's name Elric has been in the national records since 1918, with 581 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,249th. About 560 Elrics are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Elric

By the numbers

Total US births
581
Estimated living today
560
Median age today
12
Peak year
2019
Best rank
3,426th
Rank in 2025
4,249th
First recorded
1918

How old the living Elrics are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 581 babies given the name since 1918, about 560 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Elric is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2019

The most popular boys’ names the year Elric peaked:

All the names of 2019

Elric elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Elric 760 1,030th
England and Wales boys Elric 8 4,107th
Belgium boys Elric 6 1,232nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Elric: rank by region

In 2017, Elric was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Elric 502 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.