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Errick vs Erroll

American parents have registered 1,326 Erricks since 1880, against 822 Errolls. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Errick Erroll

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

Of the 89 years in which either name was published, Errick for 55 years and Erroll for 34 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Errick Erroll
Total US births 1,326822
Most in one year 5532
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,200590
Median age today 4159
Peak year 19721959
Best rank 1,098th boys1,387th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19491915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,3260 / 822

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 Errolls alive today are over 59; half the Erricks are over 41. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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