Erin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Irish Éirinn, poetic name for Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɹɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 946(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K
- CNChina≈1 in 2.1K
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 Erin 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #21 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 602 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 946 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200,000 named Ирина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ирина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Ірина in UA Ukraine, Irina in MD Moldova and אירינה in LV Latvia.
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)
From Irish Éirinn, poetic name for Ireland.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Erin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #10 | ≈3,200,000 est. | ≈1 in 44 | #12 | Ирина | 297 |
| UA Ukraine | #13 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 58 | listed | Ірина | 181 |
| CN China | — | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Ирина | 54 |
| US United States | #185 | 301,437 | 1 in 1.1K | 294K | Erin | 602 |
| BY Belarus | #8 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 47 | 16 | Ирина | 73 |
| MD Moldova | #50 | 46,403as Irina | 1 in 73 | 46K | Irina | 61 |
| AU Australia | #176 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 946 | 86 | Erin | 257 |
| LV Latvia | #15 | 15,155as Irina | 1 in 124 | 15K | אירינה | 80 |
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; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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)
Erin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Ireland.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Ireland; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Origine irlandaise, du nom de l’Irlande.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Irish Gaelic; from Ireland
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
English and Irish: from Gaelic Éirinn , dative case of Éire Ireland. Erin has been used as a poetic name for Ireland for centuries, and in recent years this has become a very popular given name. It has enjoyed particular popularity in the United States, even among people with no Irish ancestry.
as a word
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)
- Erin Brockovichb. 1960USAmerican environmental activist
- Grey DeLisleb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice actress and singer-songwriter
- Erin Danielsb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Emily Deschanelb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, television producer, and film producer
- Erin Cummingsb. 1977USAmerican actress
- St. Vincentb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1982)
- Erin Wassonb. 1982USAmerican model
- Erin Darkeb. 1984USAmerican actress
- Erin Heathertonb. 1989USAmerican model, actress, and entrepreneur
- Erin Moriartyb. 1994USAmerican actress
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 94 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 294K | #170 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.7K | #170 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 327 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2011 | 86 | #81 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2011 | 54 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 4 | #4,387 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Erin a male or female name?
- Erin is a female 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.
- How do you pronounce Erin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɹɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Erin mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Éirinn, poetic name for Ireland. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Erin?
- In the etymology graph, Arin, Eryn and Eireann are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Erin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 million people named Ирина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Erin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 301,437 people named Erin in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Erin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Erin is the 10th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Erin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erinThe 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, “Erin” — the 10th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.