Erich
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric or Erik, feminine equivalent Erica or Erika, equivalent to English Eric
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛʁɪç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erich is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 544(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 725
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 544 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 from Old Norse, variant of Eric or Erik, feminine equivalent Erica or Erika, equivalent to English Eric
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Erich 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #137 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 544 | — | Erich | 209 |
| AT Austria | #108 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 725 | 754 | Erich | 143 |
| US United States | — | 10,617 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Erich | 374 |
| CH Switzerland | #102 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Erich | 109 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2,260 | 1 in 4.7K | 2.3K | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 2 | Erich | 30 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Erich is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., hochdeutsche Form des nordischen und niederdeutsch-friesischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In French, Forme germanique de Éric, vieux norrois Eiríkr « puissant à jamais ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In yol, alternative form of ivery
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)
- Erich Ludendorffb. 1865DEGerman general and politician (DVFP, NSFP), MdR ( (1865–1937)
- Erich von Mansteinb. 1887DEGerman field marshal (1887-1973)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngoldb. 1897ATAustrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
- Erich Maria Remarqueb. 1898DEGerman-born novelist (1898–1970)
- Curzio Malaparteb. 1898ITnot in their usual nameItalian writer (1898-1957)
- Erich Frommb. 1900DEGerman-American sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
- Erich Honeckerb. 1912DEformer leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989)
- Erich von Dänikenb. 1935CHSwiss pseudoscientific writer and ufologist (1935–2026)
- Erich Segalb. 1937USAmerican writer (1937-2010)
- Erich Ribbeckb. 1937DEGerman football player and coach
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 75 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,365 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.3K | #352 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.1K | #395 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 754 | #713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52 | #2,365 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 5 | #759 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Erich?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛʁɪç/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Erich mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric or Erik, feminine equivalent Erica or Erika, equivalent to English Eric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Erich have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 147 thousand people named Erich in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erich.
- Is Erich a male or female name?
- Erich 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 Erich?
- In the etymology graph, Eric, Erik and Erick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Erich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,617 people named Erich in 2020, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Erich compared with other names?
- In Germany, Erich is the 137th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Erich?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erichThe 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, “Erich” — the 137th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.