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Erique

Boys' name

Ruler, through Eric

Erique has been given to 260 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1992, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Erique, 2012

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erique: meaning, origin, and history

Ruler, through Eric

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erique means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Erique is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eric.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 260 boys were recorded with the name Erique between 1976 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,249 in 1992.

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 Erique?

Erique had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erique 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erique. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eriques were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erique was born before 1997 — so the typical Erique is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Erique 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 1992 (20)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,249
1992

Spellings of Erique

Erique is not the most common spelling — Enrique is, with 85.4% against Erique's 0.36%.

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.

Erique around the world

Where Erique 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.

  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Erique 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
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Best rank ever
#3,249
1992
Peak year
1992
20 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
260
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erique

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

ErianEriksonErionErielEriksenEricsonEriceErisKaiqueUniqueErinnEriEriyonErikaCinqueErioluwaEriesErickaEricksonEricoErineoEricaJacqueTarique

Sibling names for Erique

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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