Erine
Erine was last recorded in 1990, when 7 babies were given it; 100 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,546, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1979, the peak
Erine peaked in 1979, when 11 girls were given it, #5,857 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 7 | #10,546 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,763 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,859 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,290 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,970 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,878 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,611 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,958 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,857 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,868 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 8 | #7,070 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,000 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,818 |
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 Erine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 100 Americans recorded as Erine, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Erine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erine, and how old are they?
An estimated 95 Americans named Erine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 265 people named Erine (158 women and girls, 107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 97 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,482 babies since 1880, Erine is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 66 babies recorded by SSA was a Erine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Erine and names like it
- Compare Erine and ErnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sErine peaked in 1979.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Erine.
- Names starting with EMost given first.