[1] Attested from the 8th century as the name of Alamannic nobility, the name is popularly given from the high medieval period in reference to Saint Ulrich of Augsburg (canonized 993).
The given name occurred frequently in the Alamannic Hunfriding dynasty in the 9th to 10th centuries; examples include Odalric, Count of Barcelona (fl.
The Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli etymologized his given name as Huldrych (Huldricus, Huldaricus), i.e. "rich in grace".
[12] The Germanic given name was adopted in Czech and Slovak as Oldřich, Oldrich and in Scandinavian languages as Ulrik, in Slovenian as Urh, in Latvia as Uldis.
In Italian, there are also many forms, as surnames, such as "Orrico", "D'Orrico", "D'oricchio", "Ulrico", "Urrico", "Orrigo", "Origo", "Orrigoni", "Orrici" and "Ulrici".