- Origin: Anglo-Saxon
- Meaning: “rich ruler.”
- Gender: Masculine
- ENG (ED-drick; EE-drick)
The name is composed of the Anglo-Saxon elements, ead (rich) & ric (ruler). It was borne by a 6th-century King of Kent, an 11th-century Mercian ealderman known for his treachery with the Danes, and an Anglo-Saxon resister against the Normans..
It is the name of a character in the Frank Herbert’s 1969 novel, Dune.
Other forms include:
- Ædric (Anglo-Saxon)
- Edric (Czech, Spanish)
- Adric (English)
- Eadrich (English)
- Odrich (English)
- Edricus (Latin)
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