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Eros

#1,324 in 2025Boys' name

Love

Eros has been given to 2,033 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #1,324 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 146 recorded.

Babies named Eros, 2025

1 in 22,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eros: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eros means

Eros means “love”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,033 boys were recorded with the name Eros between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 146 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,310 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,464 in 2020 to #1,324 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,119 in 2015 to #1,324 in 2025.

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 Eros?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,700
146 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,324
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,740 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eros 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,740 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eros. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eross were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eros was born before 2017 — so the typical Eros is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,033
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (786).

Is Eros 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
+163
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+140
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+795
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (146)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,310
2022

Spellings of Eros

Eros is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 40.6% against Eros's 0.09%.

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 Eros is used

Across 2016–2025, Eros was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 12,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 6,667
  2. 2California1 in 8,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 10,000
  5. 5New York1 in 20,000
  6. 6Nevada1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 33,333

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.

Eros around the world

Where Eros 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
    2004–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2025
    #2,231
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2023
    #1,853
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1953–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Eros

People whose public names include Eros, 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.

Eros by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,324
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 140
Best rank ever
#1,310
2022
Peak year
2025
146 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,033
Count in 2025
146

Names similar to Eros

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

EronErolKairosPetrosStavrosEroKyrosSpirosAndrosAlexandrosTheodorosAmbrosSpyrosErozKirosLeandrosAerosCarosLambrosKrosUrosArosXandrosSperos

Names with a curve like Eros

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

ScoutJeriahYazanKylinElyasTaylenZavianMalikaiIlyasKaleoMattiasGadiel

Sibling names for Eros

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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