Erie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Erie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,960 babies named Erie between 1880 and 2002, spanning 123 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Erie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 81 babies received it in a single year. Erie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,476 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Erie performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 510 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Erie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 100 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Erie in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Erie 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 1,960 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.