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Erskine

Boys' name

Scottish surname transferred into given-name use

Erskine has been given to 1,996 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1947, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Erskine, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erskine: meaning, origin, and history

Scottish surname transferred into given-name use

Scottish surname transfer

What Erskine means

Erskine is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Erskine is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɜɹ.skɪn/ and /ˈɜː.skɪn/ for Erskine.

The naming story behind Erskine

Erskine is a given name adopted from Scottish surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,996 boys were recorded with the name Erskine between 1898 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,035 in 1921.

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 Erskine?

Erskine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erskine 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erskine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erskines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erskine was born before 1948 — so the typical Erskine is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
937
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (324).

Is Erskine 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 1947 (48)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,035
1921

Where Erskine is used

Across 1910–2025, Erskine was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 85,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 8,333
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Mississippi1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Erskine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erskine 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
#1,035
1921
Peak year
1947
48 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
1,996
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Erskine

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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