Eryk
Eryk was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,070 among boys’ names; 1,053 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Eryk and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eryk by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eryk mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Eryk is “a male given name, equivalent to English Eric”
/ˈɛ.rɘk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eryk?
#11,070 among boys’ names, 2025
Eryk fell from #4,591 in 2015 to #11,070 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 3.5 per million.
51 babies in 2001, the peak
Eryk peaked in 2001, when 51 boys were given it, #2,059 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,070 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,956 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,016 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,238 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,114 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,786 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,803 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,793 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,908 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,377 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,591 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,297 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,368 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,825 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,541 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,094 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,659 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,505 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 50 | #2,513 | 24.1 |
| 2006 | 44 | #2,671 | 21.4 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,105 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,305 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,319 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,475 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,059 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,935 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,174 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,410 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,139 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,319 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,344 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,139 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,729 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,649 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,865 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,033 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,098 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,631 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,673 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,178 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,862 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,811 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,255 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,664 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,097 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,478 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,567 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,155 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,129 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Eryk a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eryk has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eryk: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eryk, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,053 Americans ever recorded as Eryk. The median Eryk alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 949 people named Eryk (5 women and girls, 944 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 970 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 207 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 587 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 208 |
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 Eryk born?
The states with the most babies named Eryk are Illinois, New York and California, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 113 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| New York | 46 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Eryk is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eryk is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1976 it was given 2.5 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 Eryk 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 1,133,515 babies since 1880, Eryk is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 2,699 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Eryk
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 Eryk and names like it
- Compare Eryk and EricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEryk peaked in 2001.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eryk since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Eryk: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Eryk.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eryk alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.