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Erick vs Erina

American parents have registered 79,880 Ericks since 1880, against 1,040 Erinas. Erick is still ahead, with 879 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Erick Erina

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 1957, when Erick had 120 and Erina had 5.

Side by side

  Erick Erina
Total US births 79,8801,040
Most in one year 2,43737
Babies in 2025 87930
Estimated living today 76,0001,000
Median age today 2322
Peak year 20072022
Best rank 166th boys3,963rd girls
Rank in 2025 366th4,546th
First recorded 18831957
Girls / boys 417 / 79,4631,040 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Erick Erina
France 6,910865
Switzerland 51721
Italy 367281
England and Wales 353292
Belgium 10118
Poland 152

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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