Alaric is a masculine Germanic

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...

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 Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...

. 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 The Visigoths (; la, Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is kno ...

kings with this name: * Alaric I, who reigned from 395–410, prominent for the Sack of Rome in 410 *

Alaric II Alaric II ( got, 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, , "ruler of all"; la, Alaricus; – August 507) was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484; he wa ...

, 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 Alaric Hall (born 1979) is a British philologist who is an associate professor of English and director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. He has, since 2009, been the editor of the academic journal '' Leeds Studies ...

(born 1979), British medievalist *

Alaric Jacob Harold Alaric Jacob (8 June 1909 – 26 January 1995) was an English writer and journalist. He was a Reuters correspondent in Washington in the 1930s and a war correspondent during World War II in North Africa, Burma and Moscow. Early life Alar ...

, British journalist, most active in the period 1940–1960 *

Alaric Jans Alaric "Rokko" Jans (born January 27, 1949) is an American film and theater composer. Career Jans co-wrote with James Quinn the music and lyrics of the 1979 musical adaptation of John R. Powers' '' Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect U ...

(born 1949), American film and theater composer * Alaric Tay (born 1979), Singaporean director, producer and actor * Alaric Tokpa, politician in Liberia *

Alaric Alexander Watts Alaric Alexander Watts (16 March 1797 – 5 April 1864) was a British poet and journalist, born in London. His life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing, and he was seen as a conservative writer. It led him to bankruptcy, when a p ...

(1797–1864), British poet and journalist *

Juan Pujol García Juan Pujol García (; 14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol i García (), was a Spanish spy who acted as a double agent loyal to Great Britain against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain ...

(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 The following is a list of characters in the Deryni series of historical fantasy novels by Katherine Kurtz. The 10th century section includes characters from the ''Legends of Saint Camber'' and ''Heirs of Saint Camber'' trilogies, while the 12th ...

, in the ''Deryni'' series of historical fantasy novels by Katherine Kurtz *

Alaric Saltzman ''The Vampire Diaries'' is an American fantasy-drama television series which was first broadcast on The CW from 2009 to 2017, airing 171 episodes over 8 seasons. Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec adapted the TV series from L.J. Smith's no ...

, in ''The Vampire Diaries'' * Alaric Stark, in the fantasy novel '' Fire & Blood'' written by

George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels ''A Song ...

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