Eric

See also: eric, ERIC, and Éric

English

Alternative forms

Erik, Erick

Etymology

From Middle English Eric, from Old English Eoric, from Old Norse Eirríkr, Eiríkr, from ei (“always, eternal”) (see aye) + ríkr (“ruler”), or from Proto-Germanic *Aizarīkijaz, from *aizō (“honor”) + *rīkijaz (“ruler”). Less likely from einn (“sole, alone”) + ríkr (“ruler”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king”) (cognate to Latin rēx and Gaulish *rīx). The name was in use in Anglo-Saxon Britain, reinforced by Scandinavian settlers before the Norman Conquest. Compare Danish Erik, German Erich. Possible doublet of Euric.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹɪk/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪk

Proper noun

Eric

A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- 1859 Frederic William Farrar: Eric, or Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School. Chapter II:
  "What's your name?" "Eric - I mean Williams." "Then why don't you say what you mean?"
- 1959 Roentgens, Rads and Riddles: A Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1959. page 71:
  Mark it. Professor Roberts does not like the name Eric. This happens to be one of his given names, and it is a very honorable one. Eric was the first Viking explorer of the North American continent, and this ERIC we hope will be an explorer in the fields of complex therapy.

Related terms

feminine forms: Erica, Erika

Translations

male given name

Arabic: إِرِيك‎ m (ʾirīk)
Armenian: Էրիկ (Ērik)
Belarusian: Э́рык m (Éryk)
Bengali: এরিক (erik)
Catalan: Èric m
Cherokee: ᎡᎵᎩ (eligi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 艾里克 (Àilǐkè)
Czech: Erik (cs) m
Danish: Erik c
Dutch: Erik (nl)
Esperanto: Eriko
Estonian: Erik, Eerik
Faroese: Eirikur m
Finnish: Eerik (fi) (historical), Eero (fi), Erkki (fi) (given name)
French: Éric (fr)
Galician: Eurico (gl)
Georgian: ერიქ (erik)
German: Erich (de)
Greek: Ερρίκος (el) m (Erríkos)
Greenlandic: Eerik
Hindi: एरिक m (erik)
Hungarian: Erik (hu)
Icelandic: Eiríkur (is) m
Italian: Erico (it)
Japanese: エリック (erikku)
Korean: 에릭 (erik)
Latin: Ericus, Euricus
Latvian: Ēriks
Lithuanian: Erikas (lt)
Maori: Eriki
Norwegian: Erik (no) m, Eirik (no) m
Old Norse: Eiríkr m
Polish: Eryk (pl)
Portuguese: Érico
Punjabi: ਐਰਿਕ m (airik)
Russian: Э́рик (ru) (Érik)
Serbo-Croatian: Erik
Slovak: Erik m
Slovene: Êrik (sl) m
Spanish: Erico (es) m
Swedish: Erik (sv) c
Turkish: Erik (tr)
Ukrainian: Е́рік m (Érik)

Anagrams

RICE, Rice, cire, icer, rice

Catalan

Proper noun

Eric

Eric

German

Etymology

Variant of Erich, borrowed from English Eric or from French Éric.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Eric

a male given name

Swedish

Proper noun

Eric c (genitive Erics)

a male given name, a less common spelling of Erik