Erik
Erik is ranked 476th among boys in 2024 (644 births). Its best rank was 64th, in 1980.
- Rank in 2024
- #476down 22 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6440.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 19804,914 births
- Best rank
- #64in 1980
- Since 1911
- 156,900people given the name
The story in the numbers
156,900 boys have been named Erik in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 4,914 births — 0.28% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 329 → 476).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 23%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Erik | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 52 | |
| 1920s | 141 | |
| 1930s | 232 | |
| 1940s | 857 | |
| 1950s | 2,450 | |
| 1960s | 14,770 | |
| 1970s | 32,093 | |
| 1980s | 36,346 | |
| 1990s | 33,604 | |
| 2000s | 22,407 | |
| 2010s | 10,502 | |
| 2020s | 3,446 |
In 1980, its biggest year
Erik was the 64th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1980 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, David and James. See all of 1980.
Names that rose and fell with Erik
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dericpeak 1980
- Torrepeak 1991
- Serjiopeak 1979
- Seanpeak 1990
- Cedrickpeak 1978
- Miquelpeak 1986
- Derickpeak 1989
- Ronnellpeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
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.