girls:
1.5k births since 1880
#4274 (25th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1880
#2837 (38th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1880
#4674 (40th percentile)
The name Erie is the #4,674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,425 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 39.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,837 (38.1% percentile) for all time with 1,960 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,274 (25.2% percentile) for all time with 1,465 births since 1880.
Erie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Erie is available in 134 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (105 years for girls and 92 years for boys). 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 Erie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (57.2% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Erie were boys.
For boys, Erie reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #592) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 54 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
For girls, Erie reached its peak popularity in 1904, achieving the 6.9% percentile (ranked #325) with 99 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 99 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Erie ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 9.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Erie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.8% confident that Erie is pronounced as IH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-ree, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH1 R IY0) 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.
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