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)
The name Eric is the #52 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 890,502 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #35 (99.3% percentile) for all time with 886,209 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,618 (54.2% percentile) for all time with 4,293 births since 1942.
Eric has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1942 for girls).
The name Eric has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Eric reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 98.2% percentile (ranked #13) with 12,204 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 13,162 births per million (ranked 97.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1976, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eric ranks #224 for boys (75.5% percentile) with 842 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eric reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 19.8% percentile (ranked #648) with 86 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 91 births per million (ranked 19.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eric".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Eric. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Eric is pronounced as EH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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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.
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