Érik
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɾik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Érik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately, from Old Norse Eiríkr.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.6K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 6.5M
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 433 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)
293,641 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Erik in SE Sweden, US United States, NO Norway and 2 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)
Ultimately, from Old Norse Eiríkr.
Sources 5
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Érik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 293,641 | 1 in 35 | 294K | Erik | 88 |
| US United States | — | 137,631 | 1 in 2.4K | 137K | Erik | 433 |
| BR Brazil | #736 | 45,617 | 1 in 4.6K | 46K | Erik | 162 |
| FI Finland | — | 25,053 | 1 in 222 | 47K | — | 23 |
| DK Denmark | — | 23,634 | 1 in 248 | 24K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 20,811 | 1 in 263 | 74K | Erik | 56 |
| HU Hungary | — | 13,746 | 1 in 711 | 14K | — | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | #178 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | — | Erik | 45 |
293,641 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). 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)
Érik is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a male given name from Old Norse or the Germanic languages, variant of Éric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, to ripen, mature, become ripe
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)
- Érik Colinb. 1947FRFrench actor (1947-2013)
- Érik Emptazb. 1949FRFrench journalist
- Érik Sabléb. 1949FRFrench writer
- Érik Decampb. 1954FRFrench mountaineer
- Éric Gonthierb. 1954FRnot in their usual nameFrench scientist
- Érik Canuelb. 1961CACanadian film director (1961–2024)
- Érik Bullotb. 1963FRFrench film director (born 1963)
- Érik Friessb. 1977FRFrench fencer
- Érik Boisseb. 1980FRFrench fencer
- Érik Chvojkab. 1986CAtennis player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 42K | #876 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Érik mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately, from Old Norse Eiríkr. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Érik?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɾik/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Érik a male or female name?
- Érik 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 Érik have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 294 thousand people named Érik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erik.
- Where is Érik most common?
- Érik is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Érik?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 293,641 people named Érik, about 1 in 35 residents.
- How common is Érik compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Érik is the 178th most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Érik?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9rikThe 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, “Érik” — the 178th most common given name in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.