Erie
Erie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 849th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197081 births
- Best rank
- #849in 1888
- Since 1880
- 3,436people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,960 boys have been named Erie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 81 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 81 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1970s alone account for 26%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Erie is used for both sexes: 43% of its bearers are girls (1,476), most of them born around 1916.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Erie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 81 | |
| 1920s | 103 | |
| 1930s | 78 | |
| 1940s | 103 | |
| 1950s | 228 | |
| 1960s | 380 | |
| 1970s | 510 | |
| 1980s | 332 | |
| 1990s | 94 | |
| 2000s | 18 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Erie was the 895th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Erie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Danialpeak 1957
- Roderickpeak 1971
- Yanceypeak 1971
- Careypeak 1957
- Clintpeak 1980
- Mattpeak 1959
- Yancypeak 1959
- Reginalpeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.