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Eryk

About 1,053 American babies have been named Eryk since 1976, most of them around 2001. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 1,000 Eryks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Eryk

By the numbers

Total US births
1,053
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
22
Peak year
2001
Best rank
2,050th
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1976

How old the living Eryks are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,053 babies given the name since 1976, about 1,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Eryks

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

Where Eryk is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Eryk is most concentrated in Illinois (11.2×), New York (2.9×), California (1.8×).

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

Names of 2001

The most popular boys’ names the year Eryk peaked:

All the names of 2001

Eryk elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland boys Eryk 20,902 birth registrations 42nd
England and Wales boys Eryk 696 623rd
Ireland boys Eryk 154 252nd
Scotland boys Eryk 44 426th
France boys Eryk 35 7,029th
Northern Ireland boys Eryk 13 262nd
Belgium boys Eryk 6 1,226th

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.

Eryk: rank by region

In 2025, Eryk was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Eryk 77 23
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Eryk 50 24
Lubelskie Eryk 85 7
Lubuskie Eryk 70 8
Łódzkie Eryk 48 34
Małopolskie Eryk 51 53
Mazowieckie Eryk 72 50
Opolskie Eryk 49 12
Podkarpackie Eryk 56 22
Podlaskie Eryk 64 9
Pomorskie Eryk 66 29
Śląskie Eryk 48 65
Świętokrzyskie Eryk 58 8
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Eryk 63 14
Wielkopolskie Eryk 69 35
Zachodniopomorskie Eryk 74 12

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 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

Eryk 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.