Boy · Old English
Godric
Say it: GOD-rich
Meaning
From Old English god 'god' or gōd 'good' and rīc 'ruler, power'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
One of the commonest Old English names in Domesday and still in use in the 12th century.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 303 babies given this name since 2009
- At its height in 2015, about 1 in 47,800 boys
- 26 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- St Godric of Finchale, hermit
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- The Domesday Book (1086) source
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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