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Erinn

About 3,561 American babies have been named Erinn since 1963, most of them around 1990. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 3,400 Erinns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Erinn boys named Erinn

By the numbers

Total US births
3,561
Estimated living today
3,400
Median age today
39
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,120th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1963
Girls / boys
3,418 / 143

How old the living Erinns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,561 babies given the name since 1963, about 3,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Erinns

People named Erinn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Erinn is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Erinn is most concentrated in California (2.7×), Michigan (2.4×), New York (1.9×), Pennsylvania (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Erinn peaked:

All the names of 1990

Erinn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Erinn 175 2,085th
France girls Erinn 145 2,209th
Northern Ireland girls Erinn 51 238th
Ireland girls Erinn 41 464th
Scotland girls Erinn 31 439th
Belgium girls Erinn 28 1,109th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Erinn: rank by region

In 2012, Erinn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Erinn 874 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Erinn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.