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Eryk

#11,070 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Eric

Eryk has been given to 1,053 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #11,070 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Eryk, 2025

1 in 553,000

Eryk over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eryk: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eric

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eryk means

Eryk is a form of Eric.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eryk is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛ.rɨk/ for Eryk.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eryk → Eric. The family’s meaning is “ruler”, recorded in English with the source elements ríkr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eric.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Eryk is pronounced /ˈɛ.rɘk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,053 boys were recorded with the name Eryk between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,059 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,786 in 2020 to #11,070 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,591 in 2015 to #11,070 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eryk?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,070
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eryk 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eryk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eryks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eryk was born before 2003 — so the typical Eryk is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,053
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (383).

Is Eryk 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
−4,114
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,284
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,479
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.8%
Peak was 2001 (51)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,059
2001

Spellings of Eryk

Eryk is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 62.5% against Eryk's 0.07%.

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 Eryk is used

Across 1910–2025, Eryk was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 217,218 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Eryk has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eryk around the world

Where Eryk 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
    2003–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2012
    #346
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    2007–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    2003–2020
    #7,029
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1994–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1951–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Eryk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,284
Best rank ever
#2,059
2001
Peak year
2001
51 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,053
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Eryk

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

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Sibling names for Eryk

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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