Aeric
Boy · AIR-ik · Old Norse
Aeric is a boys' name of Old Norse origin, meaning “ever ruler”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Aeric mean?
Old Norse: variant of Eric, from Eiríkr
“ever ruler”
A respelling of Eric, from Old Norse Eiríkr; Erik the Red founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
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Is Aeric a girl's or a boy's name?
Aeric is a boys' name.
How popular is Aeric in the US?
No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 1979.
Half of all the boys named Aeric in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aeric in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,311 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,401 |
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