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Eirik

#8,433 in 2025Boys' name

Sole ruler

Eirik has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #8,433 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Eirik, 2025

1 in 368,000

Eirik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eirik: meaning, origin, and history

Sole ruler

Old Norse

What Eirik means

Eirik means “sole ruler”, associated with Aina-rīkijaʀ.

Origin, language, and formation

Eirik is used in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Eirik comes through Old Norse Eiríkr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eric, Eiríkur, Eirikur, Erik and Erich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Eirik is pronounced /ˈæɪ.rɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 boys were recorded with the name Eirik between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,871 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,666 in 2020 to #8,433 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,426 in 2015 to #8,433 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eirik?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,433
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eirik sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eirik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eiriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eirik was born before 2008 — so the typical Eirik is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
362
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Eirik rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,452
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−767
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,007
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2017 (17)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,871
1972

Spellings of Eirik

Eirik is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 71.0% against Eirik's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eirik is used

Across 1910–2025, Eirik was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eirik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eirik around the world

Where Eirik ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    2023–2023
    #5,601
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #122
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Eirik by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,433
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 767
Best rank ever
#2,871
1972
Peak year
2017
17 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Eirik

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eirik

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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