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Erinn

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Erinn has been given to 3,561 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1990, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Erinn, 2020

1 in 371,000

Erinn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erinn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erinn means

Erinn is a given name.

The naming story behind Erinn

Wikidata records Erinn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q20899028, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,418 girls were recorded with the name Erinn between 1963 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 156 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,090 in 1977.

In the United States, 143 boys were recorded with the name Erinn between 1969 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,328 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Erinn?

Erinn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erinn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,414 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erinn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erinns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erinn was born before 1986 — so the typical Erinn is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,418
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (1,052).

Is Erinn 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (156)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,090
1977

Spellings of Erinn

Erinn is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 35.9% against Erinn's 0.39%.

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.

Where Erinn is used

Across 1910–2025, Erinn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 86,351 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 100,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Erinn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erinn around the world

Where Erinn 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2008
    #650
    in 2008
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    1999–2017
    #734
    in 2017
  • France
    2000–2025
    #6,748
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1981–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Erinn

People whose public names include Erinn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Erinn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,090
1977
Peak year
1990
156 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
3,418
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,328
1970
Peak year
1970
16 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erinn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ErisErinaErielErieErianaEricEriannaErickaBrinnErielleAislinnErikkaErickEriErikaErikCorinnRainnErilynEriccaRylinnEriyahErialQuinn

Names with a curve like Erinn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Erinn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Erinn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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