Eryk
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Eric
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛrɨk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eryk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 8.6K
- SESweden1 in 60K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
30,271 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, 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)
Eryk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #302 | 30,271 | 1 in 1.3K | 30K | Eryk | 113 |
| US United States | — | 949 | 1 in 351K | 944 | Eryk | 141 |
| BR Brazil | — | 552 | 1 in 384K | 552 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 169 | 1 in 60K | 169 | Eryk | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 391K | 4 | Eryk | 69 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 50 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 41 | 1 in 8.6K | 41 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Eryk | 14 |
30,271 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Eryk 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 Polish, Eric
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
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)
- Horik Ib. 800DKnot in their usual nameKing of the Danes (813–854)
- Eryk Lipińskib. 1908PLPolish graphic artist, cartoonist, satirist, writer, Righteous Among the Nations (1908–1991)
- Eryk Infeldb. 1940PLPolish physicist (1940-2019)
- Eryk Casemirob. 1963USAmerican film producer
- Eryk Lubosb. 1974PLPolish actor
- Eryk Rochab. 1978BRBrazilian film director (born 1978)
- Xilentb. 1989PLnot in their usual namePolish DJ and record producer
- Eryk Kulmb. 1990PLPolish actor
- Eryk Latońb. 1993PLPolish cyclist
- Eryk Williamsonb. 1997USAmerican soccer 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).
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 42 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 30K | #116 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30K | #114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 944 | #12,902 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2019 | 617 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | 580 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 552 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 542 | #12,488 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 405 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 314 | #8,523 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 311 | #19,362 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 169 | #5,888 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 107 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Eryk mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Eric Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Eryk?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛrɨk/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Eryk a male or female name?
- Eryk 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 Eryk?
- In the etymology graph, Eric, Erik and Erick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Eryk have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Eryk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eryk.
- Where is Eryk most common?
- Eryk is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Eryk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 30,271 people named Eryk in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Eryk compared with other names?
- In Poland, Eryk is the 302nd most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eryk?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erykThe 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, “Eryk” — the 302nd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.