In 2025, 37 US boys were named Yerik, making it the 3,235th most common boys’ name of the year, up 554 places from #3,789 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 30 boys named Yerik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,330, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 128. For comparison, it was #2,916 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yerik in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 8 babies. In all, 1,306 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 679 babies named Yerik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 692 US boys were named Yerik; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Yerick are summarised on this page.