Eriks
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Eriks has been given to 41 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 1965, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Eriks, 1979
1 in 665,000
Eriks 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Eriks?
Eriks had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1979
- 1 in 665,000
- 5 of 3,326,731 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 344,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1979
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 461,184 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Eriks sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eriks. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Erikss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Eriks was born before 1966 — so the typical Eriks is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 70.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 41
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 70.7% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Eriks 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 1965 (7)
- Years since peak
- 60
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.3% average annual change
Spellings of Eriks
Eriks is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 67.0% against Eriks'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.
Eriks around the world
Where Eriks 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.
- England & Wales2013–2016#4,023in 2016
- Ireland2007–2007#629in 2007
- South Australia1951–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Eriks by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Eriks
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Eriks
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.