Edric is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Edric is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Edric. In the SmartGenius ranking, Edric is #2,145 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Edric.
In fact, the name Edric did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Edric seemed to be more popular than ever in 2018. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,237, 136 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Edric, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Edric was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Edric a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,952 - with a total of 66 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Edric. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 396 Americans who bear this name. And these 396 men and boys named Edric live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey and New Mexico. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Edric lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Edric and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Edric relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 77,401 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Edric.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Edric is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Edric and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Edric, you can simply say:
Elephant
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Edric
Edric
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
D
R
I
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
D
R
I
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Edric sounds like this:
