Erie
Erie is a boy's name that peaked in 1970, when it was the 895th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 1,800 Eries are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Erie boys named Erie
Girls and boys called Erie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Erie crossed from girls to boys in 1947, and has stayed there for 5 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 77% boys, and in 1988 it was 100%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 64 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,440
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 895th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,482 / 1,958
How old the living Eries are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,440 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,800 are alive — 52 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 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 Erie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Erie is most concentrated in Mississippi (6.4×), Alabama (3.2×), New York (2.8×), Kentucky (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Erie peaked:
Related names
Erie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.