Meaning not yet researched.
Erich: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #441 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #441 in 1971; #5,937 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Erich in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,937 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #441.
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Erich: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #441 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 343 (1971).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Erich, making it the 5,937th most common boys’ name of the year, down 208 places from #5,729 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 16 boys named Erich in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #441, reached in 1971. That year also had the most boys given the name: 343. For comparison, it was #3,809 in 2015 and #1,040 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Erich in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 6 babies. In all, 11,706 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,650 babies named Erich.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 191 US boys were named Erich; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Eric (893,184 babies since 1880), Henry (773,564 babies since 1880), Harold (554,280 babies since 1880) and Harry (425,883 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Erich in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 15 | #5,937 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,729 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,643 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,211 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,191 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,527 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,845 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,454 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,144 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,616 |
| 2015 | — | — | 28 | #3,809 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,554 |
| 2013 | — | — | 39 | #2,907 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,252 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,616 | 49 | #2,519 |
| 2010 | — | — | 36 | #3,141 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,494 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,484 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,287 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,261 |
| 2005 | — | — | 73 | #1,793 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,658 |
| 2003 | — | — | 91 | #1,439 |
| 2002 | — | — | 91 | #1,425 |
| 2001 | — | — | 85 | #1,455 |
| 2000 | — | — | 125 | #1,122 |
| 1999 | — | — | 119 | #1,115 |
| 1998 | — | — | 122 | #1,072 |
| 1997 | — | — | 147 | #925 |
| 1996 | — | — | 162 | #857 |
| 1995 | — | — | 155 | #876 |
| 1994 | — | — | 189 | #767 |
| 1993 | — | — | 185 | #772 |
| 1992 | — | — | 200 | #732 |
| 1991 | — | — | 193 | #733 |
| 1990 | — | — | 201 | #718 |
| 1989 | — | — | 221 | #673 |
| 1988 | — | — | 241 | #608 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,863 | 217 | #616 |
| 1986 | — | — | 210 | #617 |
| 1985 | — | — | 252 | #555 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,906 | 246 | #552 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,762 | 232 | #550 |
| 1982 | — | — | 258 | #532 |
| 1981 | — | — | 211 | #588 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,859 | 272 | #515 |
| 1979 | — | — | 209 | #592 |
| 1978 | — | — | 242 | #531 |
| 1977 | — | — | 257 | #511 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,531 | 239 | #523 |
| 1975 | — | — | 256 | #500 |
| 1974 | — | — | 252 | #501 |
| 1973 | — | — | 251 | #491 |
| 1972 | — | — | 290 | #462 |
| 1971 | — | — | 343 | #441 |
| 1970 | — | — | 304 | #464 |
| 1969 | — | — | 235 | #505 |
| 1968 | — | — | 235 | #493 |
| 1967 | — | — | 182 | #553 |
| 1966 | — | — | 188 | #557 |
| 1965 | — | — | 211 | #528 |
| 1964 | — | — | 198 | #561 |
| 1963 | — | — | 204 | #554 |
| 1962 | — | — | 151 | #630 |
| 1961 | — | — | 177 | #593 |
| 1960 | — | — | 165 | #609 |
| 1959 | — | — | 127 | #680 |
| 1958 | — | — | 116 | #697 |
| 1957 | — | — | 115 | #706 |
| 1956 | — | — | 89 | #787 |
| 1955 | — | — | 71 | #880 |
| 1954 | — | — | 61 | #946 |
| 1953 | — | — | 62 | #913 |
| 1952 | — | — | 61 | #907 |
| 1951 | — | — | 52 | #979 |
| 1950 | — | — | 46 | #1,040 |
| 1949 | — | — | 35 | #1,213 |
| 1948 | — | — | 45 | #1,049 |
| 1947 | — | — | 49 | #1,030 |
| 1946 | — | — | 36 | #1,161 |
| 1945 | — | — | 39 | #1,021 |
| 1944 | — | — | 30 | #1,221 |
| 1943 | — | — | 26 | #1,377 |
| 1942 | — | — | 29 | #1,301 |
| 1941 | — | — | 38 | #1,056 |
| 1940 | — | — | 38 | #1,052 |
| 1939 | — | — | 32 | #1,151 |
| 1938 | — | — | 22 | #1,453 |
| 1937 | — | — | 18 | #1,650 |
| 1936 | — | — | 28 | #1,254 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,607 |
| 1934 | — | — | 24 | #1,395 |
| 1933 | — | — | 25 | #1,340 |
| 1932 | — | — | 27 | #1,334 |
| 1931 | — | — | 27 | #1,342 |
| 1930 | — | — | 31 | #1,287 |
| 1929 | — | — | 28 | #1,348 |
| 1928 | — | — | 28 | #1,395 |
| 1927 | — | — | 19 | #1,826 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,012 |
| 1925 | — | — | 27 | #1,430 |
| 1924 | — | — | 22 | #1,694 |
| 1923 | — | — | 17 | #1,968 |
| 1922 | — | — | 19 | #1,843 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,852 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,608 |
| 1919 | — | — | 22 | #1,590 |
| 1918 | — | — | 25 | #1,460 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,497 |
| 1916 | — | — | 33 | #1,143 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,428 |
| 1914 | — | — | 22 | #1,280 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,388 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,659 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,432 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,105 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #886 |
| 1900 | — | — | 9 | #927 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #809 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #877 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,149 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,132 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #992 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).