US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Erik name popularity

Erik has been given to 158,126 babies in the United States since 1911.

It peaked in 1980, when 4,959 babies got the name, and its best rank was #123 in 1980.

In 2025, 549 babies were named Erik (#1,102 in the country), 89% below the peak. That is down 46% from 2015.

Almost every Erik is a boy.

An estimated 151K people named Erik are alive in the US today, with a median age of 38.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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