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Eadric
Say it: AY-ad-rich
Meaning
From Old English ead 'wealth, prosperity' and ric 'ruler, power'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Recorded for kings of Kent and for ealdormen and landholders down to Domesday.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 24 babies given this name since 2016
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 172,200 boys
- 7 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Edric
Famous bearers
- Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- The Domesday Book (1086) source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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