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 Alrekr in Old Norse. It is reconstructed as *Alareiks in Gothic, in which it is not attested directly. In modern German, the name normally takes the form Alarich; in the Scandinavian languages it takes the form Alarik; and in modern English its form is Alaric, 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.
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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 also a legendary king of Sweden named Alaric.
Others
Alaric Basson (born 1996), South African swimmer
Alaric B. Chapin (1848–1924), Union Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Civil War
Alaric Hall (born 1979), British medievalist
Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), British journalist, most active in the period 1940–1960
Alaric Jackson (born 1998), Canadian-American football player
Alaric Jans (born 1949), American film and theater composer
Alaric Rose (1909–1985), former Dean of Hong Kong
Alaric Tay (born 1979), Singaporean director, producer and actor
Alaric Tokpa (born 1958), politician in Liberia
Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), British poet and journalist
Alaric Alfred Watts (1825–1901), British government clerk and writer
Alarik Frithiof Holmgren (1831–1897), Swedish physician, physiologist, and professor
Jayme Alaric de Perpignan (13th century), Frankish ambassador to the Mongol Empire
Juan Pujol García (1912–10 October 1988), codenamed Alaric by Nazi Germany while working as a double-agent spy for Great Britain
Leon Alaric Shafer (1866–1940), American artist
Fictional characters
Alaric, in the novels of Phyllis Eisenstein
Alaric, antagonist of C. L. Moore's fantasy hero Jirel of Joiry
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
Other uses
HMS Alaric (P441), a British Royal Navy submarine