Boy · Old English
Wulfric
Say it: WULF-rich
Meaning
From Old English wulf 'wolf' and ric 'ruler, power'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 54 babies given this name since 2012
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 189,600 boys
- 9 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Wulfric Spot, founder of Burton Abbey
- St Wulfric of Haselbury, hermit
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Where this comes from
- Anglo-Saxon charters, chronicles and church records
- The Domesday Book (1086) source
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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