Unisex name · since 2019

Erys

35 babies named Erys in U.S. Social Security records since 2019, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#39,109 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#14,596 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
35
born since 2019
2020s
peak decade

Erys currently ranks #14596 among unisex names in America, with 35 babies recorded since 2019.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Erys has been recorded 35 times among girls since 2019, currently ranked #14596 nationally and more common than 16% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.

  • #39,109 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #14,596 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 35 born since 2019
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Erys ranks #39,109 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,596 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 35 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.

#39,109 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#14,596 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
35
born since 2019
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%15.6%
Erys vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Erys's 35 recorded births place it above 45.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Erys compares

35 12th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Erys's all-time total is 91% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Erys Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 35 376 567,345
Peak-year births 11 21 19,840

Erys's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Erys's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 63% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 37%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2021, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2023 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Erys popularity over time - girls

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2023)
11
Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
4681012 20192020202120232025 6

Erys popularity over time - boys

6 total births recorded since 2024 (Erys as boys' name)

Unisex variant - 6 births
6 2024 6

Erys by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (29 births, 83% of the file).

2020s was Erys's strongest decade.

29 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.

Erys births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 29 births (83% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Erys?
Erys has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2019, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #39,109 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #14,596 of 17,297. 11 babies were born in 2023, its single highest year.
Where does Erys sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Erys ranks #39,109 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,596 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Erys most popular?
Erys was most popular in the 2020s decade with 29 total births. The single peak year was 2023.
Is Erys a unisex name?
Yes, Erys is used for both boys and girls. As a girl's name it has 35 births, and as a boy's name it has 6 births.
How long has the name Erys been used?
Erys has been recorded in Social Security data since 2019, spanning 7 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Erys?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Eryn, Erynn, Erykah, Eryka, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Erys: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Erys draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.