Erine
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Erine has been given to 100 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1979, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% girls, 12% boys all-time.
Babies named Erine, 1990
1 in 564,000
Erine 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Erine over time
In 1990, Erine went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Erine?
Erine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 564,000
- 7 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 271,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,130 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Erine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,130 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Erines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Erine was born before 1983 — so the typical Erine is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 62.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 88
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Erine 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 1979 (11)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.3% average annual change
Spellings of Erine
Erine is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 21.1% against Erine'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.
Erine around the world
Where Erine 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 & Wales2007–2012#5,876in 2012
- France1932–2025#1,676in 2025
- South Australia1998–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Erine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Erine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Erine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.