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Erion

#8,450 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Erjon

Erion has been given to 712 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #8,450 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 32 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.

Babies named Erion, 2025

1 in 368,000

Erion over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Erion over time

In 2025, Erion went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19752025

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.

Erion: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Erjon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erion means

Erion is a variant of Erjon.

Origin, language, and formation

Erion is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Erjon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Erion is pronounced /ɛɾiˈɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 599 boys were recorded with the name Erion between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,436 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,524 in 2020 to #8,450 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,203 in 2015 to #8,450 in 2025.

In the United States, 113 girls were recorded with the name Erion between 1993 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,189 in 2000.

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.

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How common is Erion?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,450
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erion sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erion was born before 2009 — so the typical Erion is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
599
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Choose a decade

2000s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Erion 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
−1,496
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,926
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,247
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.1%
Peak was 2008 (32)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,436
2008

Spellings of Erion

Erion is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 38.5% against Erion's 0.02%.

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 Erion is used

Across 1910–2025, Erion was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 809,567 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Erion has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erion around the world

Where Erion 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
    2000–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2024
    #4,091
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2019
    #2,293
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Erion by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,450
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,926
Best rank ever
#3,436
2008
Peak year
2008
32 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
599
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,189
2000
Peak year
2000
12 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erion

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

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Sibling names for Erion

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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