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Erasmo

#4,755 in 2025Boys' name

Pleasant

Erasmo has been given to 3,939 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #4,755 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Erasmo, 2025

1 in 158,000

Erasmo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erasmo: meaning, origin, and history

Pleasant

Ancient Greek

What Erasmo means

Erasmo means “pleasant”, associated with erásmios.

Origin, language, and formation

Erasmo is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Erasmo comes through Medieval Latin Erasmus and Ancient Greek ἐράσμιος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Erasmus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Erasmo is pronounced /eˈraz.mo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,939 boys were recorded with the name Erasmo between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1991; its best national rank was #929 in 1951.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,744 in 2020 to #4,755 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,434 in 2015 to #4,755 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 Erasmo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,755
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erasmo 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erasmo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erasmos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erasmo was born before 1977 — so the typical Erasmo is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
14.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,131
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 14.0% of all recorded uses (553).

Is Erasmo 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
+1,519
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−321
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.8%
Peak was 1991 (73)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#929
1951

Where Erasmo is used

Across 1910–2025, Erasmo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 21,928 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,882
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6New York1 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. Erasmo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erasmo around the world

Where Erasmo 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.

  • South Australia
    1963–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Erasmo

People whose public names include Erasmo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Erasmo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Erasmo. Linked forms have their own page here.

RasmusErasmusErazmErasmeErazem

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Erasmo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,755
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 11
Best rank ever
#929
1951
Peak year
1991
73 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,939
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Erasmo

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

CosmoEranErastusErastoEragonErasmusEraclioKosmoEraldoEraErayEramisEramiasOsmo

Names with a curve like Erasmo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Erasmo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ReymundoEdmundoClementeRosendoWillyFerminArnulfoAmadorEsequielHilarioFaustinoCecilio

Sibling names for Erasmo

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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