girls:
2.6k births since 1913
#3427 (40th percentile)
boys:
495 births since 1916
#4091 (11th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1913
#4923 (36th percentile)
The name Eris is the #4,923 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,046 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 36.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,427 (40.0% percentile) for all time with 2,551 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,091 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 495 births since 1916.
Eris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Eris is available in 93 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (84 years for girls and 53 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 Eris has been given predominantly to girls, with 83.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 86.8% of babies named Eris were girls.
For girls, Eris reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 33.5% percentile (ranked #406) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 180 births per million (ranked 33.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eris ranks #820 for girls (13.4% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 41.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Eris reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #744) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Eris is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #896 (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eris".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Eris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Eris is pronounced as EH-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-rees, at 18.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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