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Eryn vs Erynn

American parents have registered 7,588 Eryns since 1880, against 1,853 Erynns. Eryn is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Eryn Erynn

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 2019, when Eryn had 84 and Erynn had 43.

Side by side

  Eryn Erynn
Total US births 7,5881,853
Most in one year 26373
Babies in 2025 5219
Estimated living today 7,4001,800
Median age today 2522
Peak year 20001999
Best rank 855th girls2,095th girls
Rank in 2025 3,459th6,116th
First recorded 19571970
Girls / boys 7,415 / 1731,853 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Eryns alive today are over 25; half the Erynns are over 22. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Eryn Erynn
England and Wales 1,563121
France 690330
Scotland 28721
Ireland 863

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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Related comparisons

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