Erek
Erek was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 671 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erek?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,326, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1990, the peak
Erek peaked in 1990, when 30 boys were given it, #2,325 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,326 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,136 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,024 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,035 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,218 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,748 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,237 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,347 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,007 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,199 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 20 | #4,366 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,075 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,879 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,205 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,170 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,443 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,412 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,474 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,243 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,970 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,595 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,573 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,111 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,646 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,849 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,325 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,238 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,535 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,099 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,312 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,117 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,146 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,119 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,361 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,704 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,017 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,810 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,707 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,452 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,537 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,950 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,852 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,758 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,425 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,021 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,428 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,705 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,682 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Erek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erek, and how old are they?
An estimated 636 Americans named Erek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 25 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 566 people named Erek (0 women and girls, 566 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 1,133,515 babies since 1880, Erek is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,699 babies recorded by SSA was a Erek (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Erek
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 Erek and names like it
- Compare Erek and EricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sErek peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erek since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Erek.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Erek alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.