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Eric
Pronounced /ˈɛɹɪk/
Rank in 2024
#252
Born in 2024
1,402
Peak year
1970 · #18
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,402 boys were named Eric, about 1 in every 1,223.
- It peaked in 1970 with 23,573 babies, ranked #18.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 887,636 boys have been named Eric since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Eric per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 3.3Boomers1946–64
- 11.9Gen X1965–80
- 9.4Millennials1981–96
- 3.5Gen Z1997–12
- 1.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,153 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Silent: 8,989 babies, 0.44 per 1,000. Boomers: 124,557 babies, 3.32 per 1,000. Gen X: 324,489 babies, 11.92 per 1,000. Millennials: 287,211 babies, 9.44 per 1,000. Gen Z: 110,725 babies, 3.53 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 28,165 babies, 1.30 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Eric, from Old English Eoric, from Old Norse Eirríkr, Eiríkr (from ei (“always, eternal”, see aye) + ríkr (“ruler”)), or from Proto-Germanic *Aizarīkijaz (from *aizō (“honor”) + *rīkijaz (“ruler”)). Less likely from einn (“sole, alone”) + ríkr (“ruler”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king”, cognate to Latin rēx and Gaulish *rīx). The name was in use in Anglo-Saxon Britain, reinforced by Scandinavian settlers before the Norman Conquest. Compare Danish Erik, German Erich. Possible doublet of Euric.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɛɹɪk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Eric, CC BY-SA 4.0.