Ericson
Ericson was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,911 among boys’ names; 738 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ericson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ericson?
#6,911 among boys’ names, 2025
Ericson fell from #4,764 in 2015 to #6,911 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 7.0 per million.
29 babies in 2008, the peak
Ericson peaked in 2008, when 29 boys were given it, #3,671 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,911 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,561 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,047 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,936 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,612 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,315 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,525 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,602 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,640 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,833 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,764 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,044 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,996 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,310 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,402 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,653 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,803 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,671 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,069 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,561 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,517 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,387 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,880 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,974 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,778 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,257 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,115 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,892 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,527 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,370 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,881 | 6.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,299 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,171 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,566 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,771 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,421 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,965 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,343 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,583 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,321 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,676 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,695 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,730 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,096 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,626 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,565 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,270 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,999 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,817 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,685 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,426 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,151 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,936 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,595 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,349 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,172 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ericson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ericson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ericson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ericson, and how old are they?
An estimated 716 Americans named Ericson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,058 people named Ericson (2 women and girls, 1,056 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 649 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.
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, Ericson is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 44 babies (27%), again the second 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 Ericson
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 Ericson and names like it
- Compare Ericson and EricksonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEricson peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ericson since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Ericson.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ericson alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.