Erik

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Erik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. In English, recorded as A male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 35(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 222
  • DKDenmark1 in 248

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Erik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

767,096 named Eric, 2020

#75 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
674 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EricLatin(measured from records)
ЭрикCyrillic(measured from records)
ԷրիկArmenian(measured from records)
אריךHebrew(measured from records)
ΈρικGreek(measured from records)
에릭Hangul(measured from records)
ერიკGeorgian(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eric in US United States, FR France, PH Philippines, Erick in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador and Эрик in FI Finland.

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 Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erkki, feminine equivalent Erika, Eriika, or Eerika, equivalent to English Eric

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Erik is read(measured from records)

Erik is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English48%

    A male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Norwegian; honourable ruler

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Spanish16%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Erik in Spanish.

  • Finnish5.0%

    a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erkki, feminine equivalent Erika, Eriika, or Eerika, equivalent to English Eric

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Erik 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.

Where Erik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#38767,096as Eric1 in 434766KEric674
SE Sweden#12293,6411 in 35294KErik204
FR France#22≈250,000 est.≈1 in 275318KEric473
BR Brazil#197141,395as Erick1 in 1.5K141KErick210
PH Philippines#59≈140,000 est.≈1 in 789—Eric197
EC Ecuador#78263,586as Erick1 in 26664KErick79
FI Finland#32625,0531 in 22247KЭрик56
DK Denmark#1623,6341 in 24824KErik190
NO Norway#520,8111 in 26374KErik167

767,096 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Erik is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Érik, Eri-K, Erïk, Ërik, Erík

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Estonia, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Érik, Erîk, Èrik

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Érik, Erïk, Érík

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Érik, Eri-K

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ėrik, Èrik, Érik, Eriḳ

  • Indonesian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Erik, Érik, Erïk, Ërik, Eŕik

  • a separate given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Érik, Ęrîk, Ërik, Eŕik, Eŕįk

  • Turkish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, Sweden

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Эрик, Érik, Eŕiķ, Ërîk, Èrik

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Erik 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 Danish, a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Erika, equivalent to English Eric

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian, Honourable Ruler

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In Estonian, a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eero, Erki, or Erko, feminine equivalent Erika, equivalent to English Eric

    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)

12001400160018002000Eric IV of Denmark, b. 1216Erik XIV, b. 1533Erik Axel Karlfeldt, b. 1864Harry Houdini, b. 1874Erik Erikson, b. 1902Svante Pääbo, b. 1955Erik ten Hag, b. 1970Olof Mellberg, b. 1977Nico Rosberg, b. 1985Erik Lamela, b. 1992
  • Eric IV of Denmarkb. 1216DKKing of Denmark (1216-1250)
  • Erik XIVb. 1533SESwedish king (1533-1577)
  • Erik Axel Karlfeldtb. 1864SESwedish poet (1864–1931)
  • Harry Houdinib. 1874USnot in their usual nameHungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
  • Erik Eriksonb. 1902DEAmerican German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
  • Svante Pääbob. 1955SEnot in their usual nameSwedish geneticist (born 1955)
  • Erik ten Hagb. 1970NLDutch football manager (born 1970)
  • Olof Mellbergb. 1977SEnot in their usual nameSwedish football manager (born 1977)
  • Nico Rosbergb. 1985DEnot in their usual nameGerman–Finnish former Formula 1 racing driver
  • Erik Lamelab. 1992ARArgentine association football 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 123 sources across 60 countries.

Official registers attesting Erik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—294K#3
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020137K#410
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74K#12
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202056K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47K#41
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202246K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45K#602
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—42K#877
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—25K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—24K#25
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202521K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20248.6K#214

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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

Where does the name Erik come from?
a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erkki, feminine equivalent Erika, Eriika, or Eerika, equivalent to English Eric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Erik a male or female name?
Erik 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 Erik have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 767 thousand people named Eric, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Erik most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erik is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 35 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Erik mean?
In English, A male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric.
How common is the name Erik?
In Sweden, the national register counted 293,641 people named Erik, about 1 in 35 residents.
How common is Erik compared with other names?
In the United States, Erik is the 38th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Erik?
In the etymology graph, Eric, Erick and Erich are forms of the same name in other languages.

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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, “Erik” — the 38th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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