Meaning not yet researched.
Eros: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 146 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,310 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,310 in 2022; #1,324 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Eros in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,324 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,310.
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Eros: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 146 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,310 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 146 (2025).
In 2025, 146 US boys were named Eros, making it the 1,324th most common boys’ name of the year, up 163 places from #1,487 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 121 boys named Eros in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,310, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 146, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,119 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Eros in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 2,033 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 786 babies named Eros.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,105 US boys were named Eros; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,699 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Eros ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #654 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Iris (102,320 babies since 1880) and Eris (3,343 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Euro are summarised on this page.
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: Euro (102).
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 Eros in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 25 | #654 | #1,212 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #731 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #872 | — |
| California | 25 | #914 | #1,225 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,180 | #1,973 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,352 | #1,385 |
| New York | 7 | #1,462 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 146 | #1,324 |
| 2024 | — | — | 121 | #1,487 |
| 2023 | — | — | 135 | #1,380 |
| 2022 | — | — | 144 | #1,310 |
| 2021 | — | — | 123 | #1,464 |
| 2020 | — | — | 117 | #1,464 |
| 2019 | — | — | 106 | #1,575 |
| 2018 | — | — | 81 | #1,860 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,073 |
| 2016 | — | — | 65 | #2,139 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,119 |
| 2014 | — | — | 56 | #2,325 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,234 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,426 |
| 2011 | — | — | 57 | #2,268 |
| 2010 | — | — | 55 | #2,336 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,540 |
| 2008 | — | — | 56 | #2,333 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,349 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,597 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,631 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,358 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,520 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,521 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,357 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,016 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,208 |
| 1998 | — | — | 21 | #3,528 |
| 1997 | — | — | 23 | #3,199 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,587 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,119 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,610 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,052 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,129 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,458 |
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).