Eri
Eri is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,007 among girls’ names and #11,064 among boys’, #6,339 among all names counting both); 904 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eri is “a female given name from Japanese.”
From Japanese えり.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eri?
#4,007 among girls’ names, 2025
Eri rose from #9,682 in 2015 to #4,007 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 22.4 per million.
55 babies in 2024, the peak
Eri peaked in 2024, when 55 babies were given it (48 girls, #3,301 among girls’ names). The 42 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,007 | 6 | #11,064 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,301 | 7 | #10,201 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,132 | 7 | #10,045 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,379 | 5 | #12,916 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,536 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,675 | 11 | #7,162 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,285 | 9 | #8,399 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,423 | 7 | #9,990 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,052 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,682 | 9 | #8,243 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #13,505 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,372 | 8 | #9,036 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,663 | 11 | #7,192 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,629 | 5 | #12,866 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,564 | 11 | #7,218 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 14 | #6,192 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,014 | 14 | #6,162 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 7 | #10,092 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,205 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 16 | #5,097 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 13 | #5,903 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 9 | #7,425 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,632 | 9 | #7,206 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 13 | #5,460 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,686 | 8 | #7,658 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,744 | 6 | #9,053 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,885 | 6 | #8,810 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,933 | 13 | #4,741 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,311 | 15 | #4,236 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,863 | 15 | #4,111 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,420 | 19 | #3,501 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,246 | 10 | #5,467 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,275 | 7 | #6,904 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,151 | 9 | #5,647 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,906 | 9 | #5,505 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,915 | 6 | #7,266 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,991 | 9 | #4,908 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,034 | 7 | #5,670 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,258 | 10 | #4,218 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,613 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,806 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,300 | 5 | #6,559 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,562 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,958 | 7 | #5,095 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,614 | 10 | #3,927 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,511 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,725 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,653 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,073 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,236 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Eri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 904 Americans recorded as Eri, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eri, and how old are they?
An estimated 884 Americans named Eri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 6 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,038 people named Eri (1,163 women and girls, 875 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Eri rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 9,728 babies since 1880, Eri is the third most given (9.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 235 babies (18%), again the third most given.
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 Eri
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 Eri and names like it
- Compare Eri and EraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEri peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eri since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Eri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Eri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.