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Erick vs Erielle

American parents have registered 79,880 Ericks since 1880, against 667 Erielles. Erick is still ahead, with 879 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Erick against Erielle, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Erick Erielle

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

Erick has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1883 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Erick had 1,041 and Erielle had 45.

Side by side

  Erick Erielle
Total US births 79,880667
Most in one year 2,43745
Babies in 2025 87927
Estimated living today 76,000660
Median age today 2311
Peak year 20072021
Best rank 166th boys3,435th girls
Rank in 2025 366th4,878th
First recorded 18831989
Girls / boys 417 / 79,463667 / 0

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 Ericks alive today are over 23; half the Erielles are over 11. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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