girls:
417 births since 1968
#5299 (7th percentile)
boys:
77.5k births since 1883
#371 (92nd percentile)
overall:
77.9k births since 1883
#814 (89th percentile)
The name Erick is the #814 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77,942 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 89.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #371 (91.9% percentile) for all time with 77,525 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,299 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 417 births since 1968.
Erick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Erick is available in 124 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (124 years for boys and 40 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Erick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Erick reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 81.5% percentile (ranked #164) with 1,098 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 1,098 births per million (ranked 81.5% percentile). Despite a low point around 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Erick ranks #289 for boys (68.4% percentile) with 603 births per million, which is 54.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Erick reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #845) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erick".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Erick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Erick is pronounced as EH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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