Elric is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Elric in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Elric in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Elric by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Elric ranks at #3,939. That means there are 3,938 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Elric. Boys named Elric have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,945 Elric ranked higher than ever before in 1983. By comparison, there have been 100 years in which the first name Elric has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2008. In general, parents name their sons Elric only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elric was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Elric continues to be a precious jewel: 26 newborns were named Elric that year, ranking #3,562 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Elric, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 Elric 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 Elric 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 Elric, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elric
Elric
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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L
R
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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. Elric sounds like this:
