Erian
Erian was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,267 among boys’ names; 351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erian?
#5,267 among boys’ names, 2025
Erian rose from #6,435 in 2015 to #5,267 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 10.5 per million.
31 babies in 2014, the peak
Erian peaked in 2014, when 31 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,088 among boys’ names). The 18 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 18 | #5,267 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #7,021 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,405 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,603 | 5 | #12,706 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,867 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,286 | 10 | #7,801 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,343 | 11 | #7,274 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,971 | 7 | #10,009 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,056 | 16 | #5,624 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,136 | 13 | #6,435 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,096 | 14 | #6,088 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,793 | 8 | #9,037 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,686 | 8 | #9,113 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,605 | 5 | #12,867 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,840 | 7 | #9,987 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,170 | 9 | #8,509 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,374 | 10 | #7,865 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #12,918 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,617 | |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,868 | 5 | #11,897 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,415 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,079 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,687 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,194 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,886 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,441 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,923 | 6 | #8,257 |
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 Erian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 351 Americans recorded as Erian, 45% are girls and 55% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Erian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erian, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Erian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 381 people named Erian (193 women and girls, 188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,998 babies since 1880, Erian is the sixth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 331 babies (5.4%), the second most given that year.
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 Erian
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 Erian and names like it
- Compare Erian and ErenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sErian peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erian since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Erian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Erian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.