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Eriq

Boys' name

Ruler, through Eric

Eriq has been given to 742 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1995, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Eriq, 2022

1 in 677,000

Eriq over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eriq: meaning, origin, and history

Ruler, through Eric

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eriq means

Eriq belongs to the name family reached through Eriq → Eric. Its meaning is “ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eriq is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eric.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 742 boys were recorded with the name Eriq between 1988 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,357 in 1995.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eriq?

Eriq had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eriq 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eriq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eriqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eriq was born before 1999 — so the typical Eriq is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
53.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
742
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 53.2% of all recorded uses (395).

Is Eriq 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (75)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,357
1995

Spellings of Eriq

Eriq is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 57.2% against Eriq's 0.05%.

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 Eriq is used

Across 1910–2025, Eriq was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 667,746 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Eriq has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eriq around the world

Where Eriq 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.

  • Canada
    1995–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Eriq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,357
1995
Peak year
1995
75 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
742
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eriq

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

ErisErionEriErianErieEricsonErikaEricaErinErielTyriqEriksonEriceEricksonErichLyriqErinnEriqueEriesEribertoTariqEricoEriksenEril

Sibling names for Eriq

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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