Eron
Eron was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,221 among boys’ names; 1,588 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Eron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 20 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eron?
#6,221 among boys’ names, 2025
Eron fell from #4,765 in 2015 to #6,221 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 8.2 per million.
46 babies in 1981, the peak
Eron peaked in 1981, when 46 babies were given it (38 boys, #1,581 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,221 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 12 | #6,955 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 16 | #5,731 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 19 | #5,083 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 28 | #3,840 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 14 | #6,063 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 14 | #6,188 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 15 | #5,854 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,096 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 18 | #5,187 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 20 | #4,765 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 26 | #3,933 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 25 | #3,997 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,094 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,044 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 17 | #5,321 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 22 | #4,474 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 21 | #4,584 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 26 | #3,926 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 23 | #4,130 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 26 | #3,646 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,927 | 25 | #3,666 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 27 | #3,383 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 22 | #3,822 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 24 | #3,537 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 22 | #3,668 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 23 | #3,408 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 25 | #3,121 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 26 | #2,920 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 34 | #2,344 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 26 | #2,787 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 21 | #3,251 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,260 | 25 | #2,799 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,235 | 32 | #2,319 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 20 | #3,150 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 19 | #3,201 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 30 | #2,255 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 21 | #2,705 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 21 | #2,584 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,483 | 13 | #3,504 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 20 | #2,533 | |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,436 | 21 | #2,386 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,763 | 16 | #2,827 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,567 | 28 | #1,945 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,612 | 38 | #1,581 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,617 | 27 | #2,019 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,295 | 33 | #1,727 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,549 | 26 | #1,933 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,289 | 25 | #1,963 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,197 | 27 | #1,844 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,106 | 21 | #2,151 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,415 | 24 | #1,902 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,875 | 23 | #1,893 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,115 | 32 | #1,517 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 31 | #1,568 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 31 | #1,531 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 14 | #2,346 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 14 | #2,233 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 15 | #2,057 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 10 | #2,676 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,013 | 5 | #4,074 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,237 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,135 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,405 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 7 | #3,457 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,210 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,175 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,896 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,944 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,225 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,429 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,247 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,153 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,557 | 5 | #4,509 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,453 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,251 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,645 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,223 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,882 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,557 | under 5 |
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 Eron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,588 Americans recorded as Eron, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eron, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,588 Americans ever recorded as Eron. The median Eron alive today is 34 years old; half are between 20 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,528 people named Eron (220 women and girls, 1,308 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,360 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 32 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 397 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 364 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 227 |
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).
Where are babies named Eron born?
The states with the most babies named Eron are Texas, California and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 119 | #2,690 | 0.9× |
| California | 64 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Eron with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,201 babies since 1880, Eron is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 331 babies (4.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Eron
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 Eron and names like it
- Compare Eron and ErenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEron peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eron since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Eron.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Eron alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.