Erice
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Erice has been given to 264 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1971, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Erice, 1991
1 in 649,000
Erice over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Erice over time
In 1991, Erice went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Erice?
Erice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 649,000
- 6 of 3,892,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 337,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 449,730 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Erice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 449,730 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Erices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Erice was born before 1975 — so the typical Erice is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 41.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 234
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (96).
Is Erice 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 1971 (17)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.7% average annual change
Spellings of Erice
Erice is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 46.4% against Erice's 0.01%.
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.
Erice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Erice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Erice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.