girls:
666 births since 1964
#5050 (12th percentile)
boys:
156.2k births since 1911
#217 (95th percentile)
overall:
156.9k births since 1911
#480 (94th percentile)
The name Erik is the #480 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 156,912 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 93.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #217 (95.3% percentile) for all time with 156,246 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,050 (11.6% percentile) for all time with 666 births since 1964.
Erik first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1964 for girls). Birth data for Erik is available in 110 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 42 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 Erik has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Erik reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 90.7% percentile (ranked #64) with 2,649 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 2,649 births per million (ranked 90.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1994, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Erik ranks #413 for boys (54.7% percentile) with 369 births per million, which is 13.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Erik reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #749) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erik".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Erik", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 37 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Eric" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Eric..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Erik. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Erik is pronounced as EH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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