Erling
Erling was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,290 among boys’ names; 1,402 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erling by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Erling mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Erling is “a male given name”
Old Norse Erlingr
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Erling?
#4,290 among boys’ names, 2025
Erling entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,290 in 2025.
54 babies in 2023, the peak
Erling peaked in 2023, when 54 boys were given it, #2,487 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,290 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,926 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 54 | #2,487 | 31.6 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,337 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,401 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,619 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,791 | 2.6 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,200 | 3.1 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,350 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,650 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 7 | #3,336 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,235 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,134 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,404 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,771 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,741 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,204 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,341 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,654 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,337 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,638 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,985 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,736 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,284 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,355 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,887 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,246 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,100 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,612 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,625 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,545 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,009 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,645 | 13.8 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,025 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,699 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,546 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,922 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,651 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,830 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,370 | 24.0 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,335 | 25.2 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,315 | 26.2 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,363 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,370 | 25.0 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,265 | 29.2 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,158 | 33.5 |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,194 | 32.5 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,182 | 32.8 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,748 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,128 | 34.9 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,076 | 38.8 |
| 1923 | 42 | #1,104 | 38.3 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,519 | 23.0 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,183 | 33.6 |
| 1920 | 49 | #985 | 46.0 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,013 | 45.9 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,068 | 40.5 |
| 1917 | 44 | #986 | 47.5 |
| 1916 | 42 | #991 | 47.2 |
| 1915 | 48 | #895 | 56.6 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,031 | 45.8 |
| 1913 | 45 | #672 | 87.8 |
| 1912 | 23 | #947 | 53.5 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,823 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,344 | 36.0 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,444 | 32.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Erling a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erling has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erling: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erling, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Erling and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 3 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 550 people named Erling (30 women and girls, 520 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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).
Where are babies named Erling born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,077 | 0.1× |
Where Erling is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Erling is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1910 it was given 15.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Erling with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Erling
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 Erling and names like it
- Compare Erling and OrvinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sErling peaked in 2023.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erling since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Erling: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Erling.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Erling alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.