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Erienne vs Erin

American parents have registered 326,053 Erins since 1880, against 133 Eriennes. Erin is still ahead, with 349 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Erienne 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 1983, when Erienne had 29 and Erin had 15,050.

Side by side

  Erienne Erin
Total US births 133326,053
Most in one year 2915,050
Babies in 2025 under 5349
Estimated living today 130313,000
Median age today 3940
Peak year 19831983
Best rank 2,910th girls18th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked833rd
First recorded 19831888
Girls / boys 133 / 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.

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