Érico
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Eric
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Érico is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 16K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
13,236 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Erico in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PY Paraguay and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Eric
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Érico counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 13,236 | 1 in 16K | 15K | Erico | 137 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 58K | listed | Erico | 37 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Erico | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 3 | Erico | 56 |
| PY Paraguay | #454 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Erico | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | #554 | 286 | 1 in 12K | 286 | Erico | 16 |
13,236 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Érico is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, common self-heal (Prunella vulgaris)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Érico Marinho da Gama Coelhob. 1849BRBrazilian politician
- Érico Curadob. 1880BRBrazilian journalist
- Erico Bragab. 1892PTPortuguese actor
- Érico Ricardo Barneyb. 1941ARArgentine athlete
- Érico de Souzab. 1947BRBrazilian rower
- Érico Vinícius de Souzab. 1977BRBrazilian association football player
- Érico Brásb. 1979BRBrazilian actor, singer, television host
- Érico Sousab. 1995PTPortuguese association football player
- Érico AssisBRBrazilian translator, writer and journalist
- Érico MendonçaBRBrazilian politician, former secretary of culture and tourism of Salvador, Bahia
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 15K | #1,676 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Érico mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Eric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Érico?
- In the etymology graph, Eric, Erik and Erick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Érico a male or female name?
- Érico is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Érico have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Érico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erico.
- How common is the name Érico?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 13,236 people named Érico in 2022, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Érico compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Érico is the 454th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Érico?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9ricoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Érico” — the 454th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.