Erickson
#5,680 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Erickson has been given to 1,187 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #5,680 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Erickson, 2025
1 in 207,000
Erickson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Erickson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,680
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Erickson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erickson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ericksons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Erickson was born before 2007 — so the typical Erickson is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 27.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,187
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (327).
Is Erickson 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
- −2,333
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,732
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,871
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.57×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 32.0%
- Peak was 2008 (50)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Erickson
Erickson is the most-used spelling, taking 46.8% of the 2,535 babies given a near-identical spelling.
Where Erickson is used
Across 1910–2025, Erickson was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 352,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Massachusetts1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Erickson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Erickson around the world
Where Erickson 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.
- France1981–2017#5,024in 2017
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Erickson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Erickson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Erickson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.