Erasmo
Erasmo was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,755 among boys’ names; 3,939 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,970 Americans named Erasmo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 26 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erasmo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Erasmo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Erasmo is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Erasmus” Its etymology gives the sense “pleasant” (ἐράσμιος).
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Erasmus, from Ancient Greek ἐράσμιος (erásmios, “pleasant”).
/eˈɾasmo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Erasmo?
#4,755 among boys’ names, 2025
Erasmo fell from #4,434 in 2015 to #4,755 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 12.3 per million.
73 babies in 1991, the peak
Erasmo peaked in 1991, when 73 boys were given it, #1,310 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,755 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,274 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,014 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,019 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,185 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,744 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,399 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,791 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,791 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,127 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,434 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,430 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,222 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,292 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,707 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,026 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,771 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,579 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,454 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,416 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,137 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,753 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,317 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,049 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,496 | 20.1 |
| 2000 | 60 | #1,801 | 30.5 |
| 1999 | 57 | #1,762 | 29.7 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,813 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,760 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 57 | #1,674 | 30.1 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,603 | 29.9 |
| 1994 | 46 | #1,849 | 23.8 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,061 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,576 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,310 | 36.1 |
| 1990 | 58 | #1,487 | 28.2 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,860 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 50 | #1,502 | 26.1 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,341 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 46 | #1,478 | 25.0 |
| 1985 | 53 | #1,321 | 28.7 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,406 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 50 | #1,317 | 27.9 |
| 1982 | 47 | #1,383 | 25.9 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,171 | 34.6 |
| 1980 | 49 | #1,348 | 27.5 |
| 1979 | 50 | #1,308 | 29.0 |
| 1978 | 45 | #1,375 | 27.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,799 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,131 | 36.3 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,264 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,256 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,038 | 39.1 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,158 | 30.8 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,168 | 27.7 |
| 1970 | 39 | #1,340 | 21.0 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,238 | 22.9 |
| 1968 | 28 | #1,484 | 16.1 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,140 | 24.7 |
| 1966 | 33 | #1,328 | 18.5 |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,320 | 18.3 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,065 | 25.6 |
| 1963 | 27 | #1,519 | 13.3 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,219 | 19.8 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,208 | 20.2 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,213 | 19.7 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,308 | 16.9 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,176 | 20.3 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,283 | 17.2 |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,122 | 21.7 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,189 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,250 | 17.7 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,080 | 23.3 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,198 | 19.6 |
| 1951 | 57 | #929 | 30.3 |
| 1950 | 45 | #1,053 | 25.1 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,116 | 22.5 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,300 | 17.7 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,137 | 22.4 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,307 | 17.9 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,208 | 22.3 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,125 | 25.7 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,263 | 21.0 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,644 | 13.8 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,239 | 23.6 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,414 | 19.8 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,333 | 22.6 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,537 | 18.0 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,380 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,333 | 24.1 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,081 | 34.6 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,052 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,856 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,297 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,466 | 22.1 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,712 | 17.3 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,319 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,281 | 28.9 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,573 | 21.3 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,677 | 18.9 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,469 | 23.3 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,642 | 20.3 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,471 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,867 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,415 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,597 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,730 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,591 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,170 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,426 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,177 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,738 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,583 | 11.7 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,666 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Erasmo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erasmo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erasmo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erasmo, and how old are they?
2,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 3,939 Americans ever recorded as Erasmo. The median Erasmo alive today is 40 years old; half are between 26 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 6,503 people named Erasmo (17 women and girls, 6,486 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,041 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 92 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 509 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 619 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 793 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 692 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 262 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Erasmo born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,796 | 7.6× |
Where Erasmo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Erasmo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 7.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Erasmo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Erasmo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Erasmo and names like it
- Compare Erasmo and ArnulfoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sErasmo peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erasmo since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Erasmo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Erasmo.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Erasmo alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.