boys:
1.1k births since 1959
#3467 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1959
#6603 (15th percentile)
The name Erickson is the #6,603 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,136 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 14.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,467 (24.4% percentile) for all time with 1,136 births since 1959.
Erickson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (first recorded for boys in 1959). Birth data for Erickson is available in 57 out of the 65 years between 1959 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Erickson reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #862) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 23 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Erickson ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 66.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erickson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Erickson is pronounced as EH-rihk-suhn, which has 3 syllables.
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