Erroll
Erroll was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 822 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erroll by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erroll?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,976, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1959, the peak
Erroll peaked in 1959, when 32 boys were given it, #1,389 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #11,976 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,951 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,740 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,530 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,282 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,579 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,945 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,861 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,636 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,424 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 9 | #4,909 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,672 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,052 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,139 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,303 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,293 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,732 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,705 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,630 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,545 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,271 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,454 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,340 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,509 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,820 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,804 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,574 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,880 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,972 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,243 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,190 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,725 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,261 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,113 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,864 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,347 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 30 | #1,433 | 14.5 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,445 | 14.6 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,739 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,389 | 15.0 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,914 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,687 | 10.7 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,901 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,548 | 12.1 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,566 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,854 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,882 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,856 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,762 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,863 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,093 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,726 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,452 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,468 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,699 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,042 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,303 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,538 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,648 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,331 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,112 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,003 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,345 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,414 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,686 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,970 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,369 | 4.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,179 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Erroll a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erroll has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erroll: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erroll, and how old are they?
An estimated 579 Americans named Erroll and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 46 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Erroll (15 women and girls, 634 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Erroll?
Erroll is a less common spelling of Errol: SSA has recorded 822 Erroll and 8,631 Errol since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 9,907 babies since 1880, Erroll is the second most given (8.3% of them).
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 Erroll
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 Erroll and names like it
- Compare Erroll and ErrolBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sErroll peaked in 1959.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erroll since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Erroll.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Erroll alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.