Alaric (name)

For people called Alaric, see Alaric.

Alaric is a masculine Germanic given name that, broken into its parts means Ala "everyone's" and ric "ruler". This has various forms in the several Germanic languages, such as Alareiks in the original Gothic and Alrekr in Old Norse. Most modern Germanic languages render it as Alarich or Alarik but Alaric is the form used in modern English, an adaptation of the Latinization (Alaricus) of the Gothic one—there is also the alternative Latinization Alarichus from Greek Ἀλάριχος --. In Italian, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish it is Alarico.

Kings

There were two Visigothic kings with this name:

• Alaric I, who reigned from 395–410, prominent for the Sack of Rome in 410
• Alaric II, who reigned from 485–507

There was a legendary king of Sweden named Alaric.

Others

• Alaric B. Chapin (June 18, 1848–November 27, 1924), Union Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Civil War
• Alaric Hall (born 1979), British medievalist
• Alaric Jacob, British journalist, most active in the period 1940–1960
• Alaric Jans (born 1949), American film and theater composer
• Alaric Tay (born 1979), Singaporean director, producer and actor
• Alaric Tokpa, politician in Liberia
• Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), British poet and journalist
• Juan Pujol García (1912–10 October 1988), codenamed Alaric by Nazi Germany while working as a double-agent spy for Great Britain

Fictional characters

• Alaric, in the novels of Phyllis Eisenstein
• Alaric Morgan, in the Deryni series of historical fantasy novels by Katherine Kurtz
• Alaric Saltzman, in The Vampire Diaries
• Alaric Stark, in the fantasy novel Fire & Blood written by George R. R. Martin
• Alaric Tudor, in the novel The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope

See also

• Alarico Fernandes, Timorese politician and independence activist
• Eric