Erickson
Erickson was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,680 among boys’ names; 1,187 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Erickson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erickson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erickson?
#5,680 among boys’ names, 2025
Erickson fell from #3,809 in 2015 to #5,680 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 9.4 per million.
50 babies in 2008, the peak
Erickson peaked in 2008, when 50 boys were given it, #2,525 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,680 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,347 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,921 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,114 | 22.3 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,670 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,948 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,825 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,393 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,532 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,020 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,809 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,822 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,782 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,430 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,815 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,193 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,419 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,525 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,154 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,560 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,847 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,302 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,476 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,558 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,162 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,667 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,037 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,577 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,489 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,952 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,042 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,370 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,596 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,374 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,500 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,988 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,714 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,981 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,492 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,219 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,656 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,996 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,470 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,029 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,677 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,740 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,175 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,272 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,263 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,339 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,728 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,312 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,210 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,199 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,022 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,400 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,839 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,139 | 2.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,727 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Erickson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erickson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erickson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erickson, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,187 Americans ever recorded as Erickson. The median Erickson alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,621 people named Erickson (27 women and girls, 1,594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 995 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 92 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 261 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 397 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 399 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,445 babies since 1880, Erickson is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 44 babies (36%), again the 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 Erickson
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 Erickson and names like it
- Compare Erickson and EricsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sErickson peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erickson since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Erickson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Erickson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.