Erian — boys' name

What the Data Says About Erian

The Social Security Administration has registered 174 babies named Erian between 1996 and 2023, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Erian currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Erian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 159 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Erian performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Erian shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Erian in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Erian in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 174 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.