Ēriks
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ēriks is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 346(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 29K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 141K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 346 (inferred from the name graph)
5,443 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eriks in LV Latvia, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 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)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ēriks 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 5,443 | 1 in 346 | 5.4K | Eriks | 25 |
| US United States | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 270 | Eriks | 138 |
| BR Brazil | 156 | 1 in 1.4M | 156 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 618K | listed | Eriks | 31 |
| PE Peru | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Eriks | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 52 | 1 in 196K | 52 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 189K | 160 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 12 | 1 in 29K | 12 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 141K | 12 | — | 1 |
5,443 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling ēriks. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Ēriks 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 Latvian, Eiro
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Ēriks Rauskab. 1899LVLatvian weightlifter
- Ēriks Pētersonsb. 1909LVLatvian footballer and hockey player (1909–1987)
- Ēriks Raistersb. 1913LVLatvian footballer (1913-1942)
- Ēriks Lazdiņšb. 1914LVLatvian chess player (1914-1997)
- Ēriks Lācisb. 1938LVLatvian film director (1938-2005)
- Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņšb. 1949LVLatvian politician and diplomat (1949–2021)
- Ēriks Grigjansb. 1964LVLatvian association football player (born 1964)
- Ēriks Ešenvaldsb. 1977LVLatvian choral composer (born 1977)
- Ēriks Pelcisb. 1978LVLatvian footballer
- Ēriks Ševčenkob. 1991LVLatvian ice hockey player (born 1991)
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.4K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.4K | #90 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 Ēriks mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Ēriks a male or female name?
- Ēriks 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ēriks?
- In the etymology graph, Eric, Erik and Erick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ēriks have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Ēriks, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eriks.
- Where is Ēriks most common?
- Ēriks is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 346 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ēriks?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 5,443 people named Ēriks, about 1 in 346 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%93riksThe 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, “Ēriks”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.