Eerik
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eero, Ergo, Erik, Erki, or Erko, feminine equivalent Erika, equivalent to English Eric
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eerik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 716
- EEEstonia≈1 in 5.7K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 716 (inferred from the name graph)
7,779 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
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 Eerikki, Eero, Erik, or Erkki, feminine equivalent Eerika, Eriika, or Erika, equivalent to English Eric
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Eerik is read(measured from records)
Eerik is one spelling over 4 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.
- Estonian25%
- Latvian18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Eerik in Latvian.
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Eerik in English.
- Finnish16%
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Eerik 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.
7,779 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eerik Kumarib. 1912EEEstonian ornithologist (1912-1984)
- Petter Savolab. 1932FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Eerik-Juhan Truuvälib. 1938EEEstonian lawyer (1938-2019)
- Paul-Eerik Rummob. 1942EEEstonian poet and politician (born 1942)
- Pertti Mäki-Hakolab. 1951FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Eerik-Niiles Krossb. 1967EEEstonian politician (born 1967)
- Eerik Reinsoob. 1988EEEstonian footballer (born 1988)
- Joel Hokkab. 1993FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer and guitarist
- Karl-Eerik Luigendb. 1993EEEstonian association football player (born 1993)
- Eerik Kantolab. 2000FIFinnish footballer
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 77 | #1,069 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 76 | #1,143 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #40,128 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #56,796 |
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
- Where does the name Eerik come from?
- a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerikki, Eero, Erik, or Erkki, feminine equivalent Eerika, Eriika, or Erika, equivalent to English Eric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Eerik mean?
- In Estonian, a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eero, Ergo, Erik, Erki, or Erko, feminine equivalent Erika, equivalent to English Eric
- Is Eerik a male or female name?
- Eerik 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 Eerik?
- In the etymology graph, Eric, Erik and Erick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Eerik have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Eerik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eerik.
- Where is Eerik most common?
- Eerik is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 716 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Eerik?
- In Finland, the national register counted 7,779 people named Eerik, about 1 in 716 residents.
- How common is Eerik compared with other names?
- In Finland, Eerik is the 744th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eerikThe 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, “Eerik” — the 744th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.