Erhardt

Boys' name

Honour + hard, through Erhard

Erhardt has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Erhardt, 1929

1 in 313,000

Erhardt over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erhardt: meaning, origin, and history

Honour + hard, through Erhard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erhardt means

Erhardt belongs to the name family reached through Erhardt → Erhard. Its meaning is “honour + hard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Erhardt is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Erhard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 92 boys were recorded with the name Erhardt between 1913 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,150 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Erhardt?

Erhardt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1929: 1 in 313,000; 7 of 2,192,103 births
Among boys only: 1 in 154,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1929: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 217,065 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Erhardt 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 1929 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 217,065 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erhardt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erhardts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erhardt was born before 1918 — so the typical Erhardt is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 57.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Erhardt 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (12)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,150; 1914

Spellings of Erhardt

Erhardt is not the most common spelling — Gerhard is, with 71.9% against Erhardt's 2.7%.

Gerhard71.9%2,429
Gerhardt25.4%858
Erhardt2.7%92

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.

Erhardt by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,150; 1914
Peak year: 1916; 12 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 1929
All-time count: 92
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Erhardt

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

Erhard Erhan Erhart Reinhardt Gerhardt Bernhardt Kurdt

Sibling names for Erhardt

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

For a sister

Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona Albina

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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