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Erland

Boys' name

Foreigner

Erland has been given to 478 babies in the U.S. since 1901. 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 1917, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Erland, 1982

1 in 501,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erland: meaning, origin, and history

Foreigner

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erland means

Erland means “foreigner”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Erland is used in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈæː.ɭand/ for Erland.

Origin, language, and formation

Erland is used in Danish and Swedish.

Erland comes through Old Norse Erlendr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Erlend.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Erland is pronounced /ˈɛər.lənd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 478 boys were recorded with the name Erland between 1901 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1917; its best national rank was #983 in 1901.

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 Erland?

Erland had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 501,000
7 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
347,331 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erland 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 1982 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 347,331 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erlands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erland was born before 1930 — so the typical Erland is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
40
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1920s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (134).

Is Erland 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (24)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#983
1901

Spellings of Erland

Erland is not the most common spelling — Roland is, with 33.9% against Erland's 0.16%.

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 Erland is used

Across 1910–2025, Erland was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,281,136 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 100,000
  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. Erland has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erland around the world

Where Erland 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.

  • France
    1956–1956
    #1,360
    in 1956
  • Norway
    1880–2015
    #449
    in 2015

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Erland 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
#983
1901
Peak year
1917
24 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
478
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erland

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

ErlinErlingWylandKylandHylandDylandTylandNeylandLeilandJaylandRhylandRaylandLeylandNolandArlandZealandIslandKailandDelandOaklandDurandWeylandScotlandRockland

Sibling names for Erland

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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