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Boy's name · #273 in the US (2025) · Retro
Eric's best rank, #13, came in 1973; it has stepped well back to #273 today. Roughly 889,000 boys have been named Eric since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 45 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#51 in Spain (2024) · #169 in England & Wales (2025) · #196 in Switzerland (2025) · #215 in Ireland (2025) · #249 in New Zealand (2025) · #285 in N. Ireland (2025) · #311 in Austria (2025) · #335 in Poland (2025) · #343 in Scotland (2025) · #397 in Belgium (2025) · #399 in Norway (2025) · #419 in Sweden (2025) and 5 more.
Among 9,523 notable people named Eric:
Sports figures appear 1.33× more often than among typical names — e.g. Eric Cantona, French footballer and actor (born 1966).
Together with its spelling variants Erick (#366) and Erik (#546), Eric would rank around #135 with about 2,700 births last year — the newborns split about 47/33/20 across Eric, Erick, and Erik.
Similar names: Erick · Jeffrey · Eros · Bradley · Derrick · Richard
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