Eric

girls:

4.3k births since 1942

#2618 (54th percentile)

boys:

886.2k births since 1880

#35 (99th percentile)

overall:

890.5k births since 1880

#52 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eric".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
4,293
Peak Births
165
Peak Year
1988
First Recorded
1942
Peak Percentile
19.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#611
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
886,209
Peak Births
23,572
Peak Year
1975
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
98.2%
Current Percentile
75.5%
Peak Rank
#13
Current Rank
#224
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Eric

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Eric. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Eric is pronounced as EH-rihk.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Eric. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Eric, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AH-rihk (2 syllables)
15 names 12.4k births
AA1 R IH0 K
A-rihk (2 syllables)
8 names 9k births
AE1 R IH0 K

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 R IH0 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.