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Eriberto vs Erin

American parents have registered 326,053 Erins since 1880, against 2,404 Eribertos. Erin is still ahead, with 349 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eriberto against Erin, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eriberto Erin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Erin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1930, when Eriberto had 6 and Erin had 9.

Side by side

  Eriberto Erin
Total US births 2,404326,053
Most in one year 7915,050
Babies in 2025 5349
Estimated living today 2,200313,000
Median age today 3340
Peak year 19971983
Best rank 1,386th boys18th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th833rd
First recorded 19211888
Girls / boys 0 / 2,404316,575 / 9,478

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Erins alive today are over 40; half the Eribertos are over 33. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eriberto and Erin.