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Erielle vs Erin

American parents have registered 326,053 Erins since 1880, against 667 Erielles. Erin is still ahead, with 349 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Erielle 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 2021, when Erielle had 45 and Erin had 564.

Side by side

  Erielle Erin
Total US births 667326,053
Most in one year 4515,050
Babies in 2025 27349
Estimated living today 660313,000
Median age today 1140
Peak year 20211983
Best rank 3,435th girls18th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th833rd
First recorded 19891888
Girls / boys 667 / 0316,575 / 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 Erielles are over 11. That is 29 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: Erielle and Erin.