Ericsson
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ericsson has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2010, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Ericsson, 2023
1 in 474,000
Ericsson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ericsson?
Ericsson had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ericsson sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ericsson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ericssons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ericsson was born before 2015 — so the typical Ericsson is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 57
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Ericsson 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (8)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Ericsson
Ericsson is not the most common spelling — Erickson is, with 59.9% against Ericsson's 2.9%.
Ericsson around the world
Where Ericsson 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.
- France2000–2000#3,780in 2000
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ericsson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ericsson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ericsson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.