Eri
Eri reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 3,277, and has been recorded 904 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,975th. About 890 Eris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Eri boys named Eri
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 904
- Estimated living today
- 890
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 3,277th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,975th
- First recorded
- 1963
- Girls / boys
- 513 / 391
How old the living Eris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 904 babies given the name since 1963, about 890 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
From Japanese えり.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Eris
- Eri Kitamura (born 1987)Japanese voice actress and singer
- Eri Tosaka (born 1993)Japanese amateur wrestler
- Eri Kamei (born 1988)Japanese singer, actress and model (former Morning Musume member)
- Eri Hozumi (born 1994)Japanese tennis player
- Eri Klas (1939–2016)Estonian conductor
- Eri Fukatsu (born 1973)Japanese actress, singer
- Eri Yamada (born 1984)Japanese softball player
- Eri Yonamine (born 1991)Japanese racing cyclist
People named Eri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Eri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Eri is most concentrated in California (5.8×), Texas (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Eri peaked:
Eri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Eri | 35 | 2,673rd |
| France girls | Eri | 10 | 5,542nd |
| England and Wales boys | Eri | 6 | 3,225th |
| France boys | Eri | 5 | 6,469th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Eri among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Eri | — | 8 |
| Finland boys | Eri | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Eri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.