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Eryka vs Eryn

American parents have registered 7,588 Eryns since 1880, against 1,171 Erykas. Eryn is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eryka against Eryn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eryka Eryn

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

Eryn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Eryka had 79 and Eryn had 232.

Side by side

  Eryka Eryn
Total US births 1,1717,588
Most in one year 79263
Babies in 2025 under 552
Estimated living today 1,2007,400
Median age today 2625
Peak year 19982000
Best rank 1,921st girls855th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,459th
First recorded 19701957
Girls / boys 1,171 / 07,415 / 173

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 Eryka Eryn
England and Wales 401,563
France 55690

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: Eryka and Eryn.