Eraina
Eraina was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 298 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eraina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eraina?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,245, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1945, the peak
Eraina peaked in 1945, when 18 girls were given it, #2,006 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,245 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,826 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,607 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,553 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,856 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,898 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,297 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,956 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,435 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,293 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | #7,866 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,004 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,713 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,383 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,412 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,974 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,753 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,661 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,307 | 7.4 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,579 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,249 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,030 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,803 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,231 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,074 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,043 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,329 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,398 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,371 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,051 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,982 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,673 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,483 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,598 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,006 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,474 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eraina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eraina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eraina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eraina, and how old are they?
An estimated 257 Americans named Eraina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 47 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 282 people named Eraina (282 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,343 babies since 1880, Eraina is the fifth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 74 babies recorded by SSA was a Eraina (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Eraina and names like it
- Compare Eraina and ErnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sEraina peaked in 1945.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eraina since 1910.
- The top names of 1945The year the most babies were named Eraina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Eraina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with EMost given first.