Erskine
Erskine was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 1,996 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erskine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erskine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,870, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1947, the peak
Erskine peaked in 1947, when 48 boys were given it, #1,039 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #12,870 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,052 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,923 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,619 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,494 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,659 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,478 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,293 | 5.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,782 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,862 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 13 | #4,240 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,603 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,670 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,344 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,053 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,657 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,677 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,120 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,880 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,650 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,567 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,697 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,506 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,455 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,068 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,567 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,671 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,747 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,989 | 13.0 |
| 1971 | 27 | #1,721 | 15.3 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,760 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 27 | #1,575 | 15.1 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,707 | 12.7 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,581 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,547 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,635 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,922 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,988 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,774 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,088 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,247 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,732 | 10.3 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,491 | 13.2 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,414 | 14.4 |
| 1956 | 29 | #1,457 | 13.7 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,225 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,251 | 17.7 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,217 | 19.3 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,384 | 15.4 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,175 | 20.2 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,238 | 19.0 |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,150 | 21.4 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,301 | 17.7 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,039 | 26.2 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,220 | 20.3 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,331 | 18.6 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,453 | 16.1 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,225 | 22.4 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,198 | 24.6 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,306 | 21.2 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,142 | 29.3 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,304 | 23.5 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,454 | 19.8 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,351 | 23.4 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,334 | 24.1 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,862 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,397 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,857 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,797 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,242 | 29.8 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,472 | 22.8 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,320 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,580 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,301 | 28.4 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,250 | 30.6 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,151 | 34.1 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,140 | 35.3 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,335 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,289 | 29.4 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,035 | 41.8 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,164 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,590 | 22.4 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,356 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,276 | 31.3 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,719 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,727 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,508 | 26.0 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,389 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,659 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,432 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,467 | 30.9 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,141 | 45.4 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,398 | 34.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,105 | 46.8 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,377 | 33.2 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,184 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Erskine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erskine has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erskine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erskine, and how old are they?
An estimated 925 Americans named Erskine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 50 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 929 people named Erskine (11 women and girls, 918 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,070 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Erskine born?
The states with the most babies named Erskine are Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 393 | not ranked | 8.6× |
| North Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Erskine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Erskine is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 8.6 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 Erskine 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 Erskine
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 Erskine and names like it
- Compare Erskine and WymanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sErskine peaked in 1947.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erskine since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Erskine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Erskine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.