Yerik
Yerik was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,234 among boys’ names; 1,306 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Yerik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yerik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yerik?
#3,234 among boys’ names, 2025
Yerik fell from #2,915 in 2015 to #3,234 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 21.7 per million.
128 babies in 2011, the peak
Yerik peaked in 2011, when 128 boys were given it, #1,330 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,234 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,787 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 88 | #1,831 | 51.4 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,115 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,596 | 61.7 |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,472 | 67.8 |
| 2019 | 111 | #1,533 | 61.9 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,505 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,666 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,623 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,915 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,364 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,845 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 107 | #1,512 | 56.4 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,330 | 67.4 |
| 2010 | 88 | #1,737 | 45.9 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,005 | 35.3 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,282 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,586 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,063 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,565 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,897 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yerik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yerik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yerik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yerik, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,306 Americans ever recorded as Yerik. The median Yerik alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 638 people named Yerik (9 women and girls, 629 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 877 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 494 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 801 |
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 Yerik born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,560 | 1.2× |
Where Yerik is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yerik is most over-represented in New York: since 2004 it was given 1.3 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 Yerik 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,554 babies since 1880, Yerik is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 64 babies (58%), again the most given.
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 Yerik
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 Yerik and names like it
- Compare Yerik and YorkBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYerik peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yerik since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Yerik.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yerik alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.