Meaning not yet researched.
Erik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 549 in 2025. Its best rank was #64 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #64 in 1980; #546 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Erik in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#546 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #64.
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Erik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 549 boys in 2025. Peak: #64 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 4,918 (1980).
In 2025, 549 US boys were named Erik, making it the 546th most common boys’ name of the year, down 70 places from #476 in 2024. That is 96 fewer than the 645 boys named Erik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #64, reached in 1980. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,918. For comparison, it was #337 in 2015 and #592 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Erik in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 158,126 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 36,612 babies named Erik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,515 US boys were named Erik; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 948. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,111 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Erik ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #309 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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). Rarer spellings such as Eri are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Eric, Rick and Ricky.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eri (904).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 16 | #309 | #453 |
| Idaho | 8 | #310 | — |
| Colorado | 18 | #353 | #425 |
| California | 94 | #369 | #245 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #376 | #274 |
| Texas | 97 | #380 | #250 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #382 | #365 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #391 | #419 |
| Oregon | 9 | #416 | #367 |
| Arizona | 15 | #472 | #263 |
| Washington | 15 | #480 | #215 |
| Kansas | 7 | #482 | #288 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #495 | #336 |
| Iowa | 6 | #522 | #471 |
| Indiana | 13 | #522 | #414 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #530 | #409 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #538 | — |
| Alabama | 9 | #542 | #463 |
| Ohio | 18 | #563 | #459 |
| Florida | 23 | #690 | #388 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #719 | #463 |
| Illinois | 12 | #723 | #365 |
| Georgia | 13 | #724 | #394 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #730 | #355 |
| Maryland | 6 | #739 | #401 |
| Missouri | 7 | #740 | #535 |
| Virginia | 9 | #755 | #336 |
| Michigan | 9 | #791 | #463 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #791 | #321 |
| New York | 17 | #810 | #412 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 549 | #546 |
| 2024 | — | — | 645 | #476 |
| 2023 | — | — | 679 | #454 |
| 2022 | — | — | 716 | #432 |
| 2021 | — | — | 699 | #442 |
| 2020 | — | — | 708 | #422 |
| 2019 | — | — | 815 | #384 |
| 2018 | — | — | 855 | #377 |
| 2017 | — | — | 901 | #368 |
| 2016 | — | — | 948 | #355 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,019 | #337 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,037 | #329 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,105 | #311 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,223 | #289 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,266 | #277 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,337 | #256 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,555 | #233 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,306 | 1,795 | #213 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,112 | 2,028 | #199 |
| 2006 | — | — | 2,131 | #189 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,301 | 2,228 | #183 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,966 | 2,365 | #172 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,556 | 2,550 | #158 |
| 2002 | — | — | 2,460 | #156 |
| 2001 | — | — | 2,574 | #155 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,385 | 2,722 | #143 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,202 | 2,723 | #139 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,511 | 2,676 | #140 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,447 | 2,857 | #134 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,033 | 3,020 | #122 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,679 | 3,432 | #111 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,280 | 3,746 | #99 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,372 | 3,488 | #105 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,809 | 3,815 | #98 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,721 | 3,892 | #95 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,473 | 3,956 | #96 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,114 | 3,630 | #95 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,218 | 3,478 | #92 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,547 | 3,231 | #94 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,579 | 3,110 | #92 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,348 | 3,372 | #87 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,102 | 3,422 | #84 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,930 | 3,636 | #80 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,038 | 3,632 | #80 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,652 | 3,921 | #76 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,358 | 4,918 | #64 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,809 | 4,640 | #66 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,124 | 3,261 | #85 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,112 | 2,786 | #94 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,718 | 2,754 | #94 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,998 | 2,855 | #87 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,035 | 2,881 | #90 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,382 | 3,062 | #86 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,761 | 3,398 | #86 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,900 | 3,212 | #97 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,627 | 3,245 | #101 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,836 | 2,721 | #119 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,083 | 2,368 | #125 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,903 | 2,250 | #133 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,604 | 1,965 | #145 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,455 | 2,117 | #145 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,068 | 1,167 | #221 |
| 1963 | — | — | 674 | #298 |
| 1962 | — | — | 516 | #344 |
| 1961 | — | — | 520 | #347 |
| 1960 | — | — | 472 | #360 |
| 1959 | — | — | 428 | #384 |
| 1958 | — | — | 340 | #427 |
| 1957 | — | — | 324 | #431 |
| 1956 | — | — | 253 | #476 |
| 1955 | — | — | 222 | #495 |
| 1954 | — | — | 220 | #487 |
| 1953 | — | — | 191 | #507 |
| 1952 | — | — | 187 | #510 |
| 1951 | — | — | 153 | #552 |
| 1950 | — | — | 132 | #592 |
| 1949 | — | — | 154 | #537 |
| 1948 | — | — | 93 | #692 |
| 1947 | — | — | 121 | #620 |
| 1946 | — | — | 95 | #665 |
| 1945 | — | — | 96 | #619 |
| 1944 | — | — | 65 | #777 |
| 1943 | — | — | 79 | #725 |
| 1942 | — | — | 57 | #869 |
| 1941 | — | — | 53 | #874 |
| 1940 | — | — | 44 | #971 |
| 1939 | — | — | 39 | #1,017 |
| 1938 | — | — | 32 | #1,151 |
| 1937 | — | — | 24 | #1,381 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,605 |
| 1935 | — | — | 24 | #1,401 |
| 1934 | — | — | 24 | #1,396 |
| 1933 | — | — | 23 | #1,418 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,128 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,723 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,847 |
| 1929 | — | — | 19 | #1,750 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,172 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,897 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,013 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,638 |
| 1924 | — | — | 23 | #1,643 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,157 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,531 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,685 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,298 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,442 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,025 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,605 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,352 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,016 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,823 |
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).