Erik Forename
1,294th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 735,334 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Sweden
Erik Forename User-submission:
Erik is a form of the name Eric, meaning 'sole ruler'.
Erik Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 142,944 | 1:2,536 | 461 |
| Sweden | 100% | 93,935 | 1:105 | 12 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 80,055 | 1:211 | 13 |
| Mexico | 100% | 61,078 | 1:2,033 | 323 |
| Indonesia | 93% | 59,394 | 1:4,343 | 500 |
| Denmark | - | 36,644 | 1:154 | 27 |
| Brazil | 100% | 35,409 | 1:6,050 | 789 |
| Norway | 100% | 24,220 | 1:212 | 28 |
| Russia | 100% | 22,826 | 1:6,319 | 296 |
| Belgium | 100% | 21,290 | 1:540 | 121 |
| Germany | 100% | 17,258 | 1:5,602 | 534 |
| Spain | 100% | 13,665 | 1:3,405 | 387 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 11,058 | 1:1,605 | 315 |
| Canada | 100% | 7,765 | 1:4,267 | 696 |
| Czechia | 100% | 5,766 | 1:1,848 | 222 |
| Mozambique | - | 5,760 | 1:4,730 | 908 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 5,142 | 1:3,133 | 478 |
| Peru | 99% | 5,127 | 1:6,201 | 867 |
| Chile | 100% | 4,765 | 1:3,695 | 431 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 4,221 | 1:7,155 | 835 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4,056 | 1:7,590 | 1,119 |
| Finland | 100% | 3,578 | 1:1,532 | 307 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 3,152 | 1:780 | 201 |
| Armenia | 99% | 3,142 | 1:929 | 206 |
| France | 100% | 3,007 | 1:22,105 | 967 |
| Honduras | 100% | 2,815 | 1:3,132 | 480 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 2,811 | 1:1,889 | 210 |
| Ecuador | - | 2,448 | 1:7,241 | 692 |
| Hungary | 100% | 2,360 | 1:4,149 | 235 |
| Colombia | 99% | 2,314 | 1:20,648 | 1,406 |
| Philippines | 99% | 2,258 | 1:46,948 | 3,480 |
| England | 100% | 2,213 | 1:25,126 | 1,469 |
| Poland | 99% | 2,168 | 1:17,540 | 665 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2,136 | 1:32,802 | 3,977 |
| Estonia | 100% | 1,946 | 1:676 | 168 |
| Australia | - | 1,916 | 1:7,128 | 798 |
| Sudan | - | 1,785 | 1:21,180 | 2,091 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,748 | 1:17,627 | 2,361 |
| Romania | 100% | 1,693 | 1:11,844 | 952 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1,634 | 1:3,656 | 605 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,535 | 1:6,906 | 863 |
| South Africa | 100% | 1,532 | 1:35,596 | 4,085 |
| India | 100% | 1,386 | 1:876,535 | 59,758 |
| Austria | 100% | 1,321 | 1:6,445 | 514 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1,226 | 1:2,896 | 319 |
| Italy | 99% | 1,200 | 1:50,885 | 1,360 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1,193 | 1:3,997 | 557 |
| El Salvador | - | 1,088 | 1:5,829 | 566 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 1,072 | 1:7,662 | 890 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 995 | 1:10,484 | 1,222 |
| Georgia | 93% | 978 | 1:3,823 | 490 |
| Belarus | 99% | 878 | 1:10,800 | 259 |
| Ghana | - | 787 | 1:34,290 | 2,099 |
| Tajikistan | 97% | 762 | 1:10,991 | 1,094 |
| Nicaragua | 99% | 640 | 1:9,404 | 1,026 |
| Latvia | 100% | 606 | 1:3,326 | 407 |
| New Zealand | - | 508 | 1:8,929 | 992 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 501 | 1:41,515 | 4,680 |
| Albania | 100% | 468 | 1:6,510 | 1,185 |
| Bangladesh | - | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 453 | 1:391,974 | 13,314 |
| Malaysia | 97% | 415 | 1:73,373 | 5,568 |
| Portugal | - | 415 | 1:25,086 | 1,101 |
| Panama | 100% | 404 | 1:9,670 | 1,308 |
| China | - | 340 | 1:4,017,811 | 51,311 |
| Argentina | 98% | 311 | 1:137,535 | 2,131 |
| Greenland | - | 310 | 1:182 | 25 |
| Scotland | 100% | 270 | 1:19,816 | 967 |
| Egypt | 100% | 260 | 1:353,465 | 10,818 |
| Japan | - | 256 | 1:499,946 | 11,061 |
| Lebanon | 98% | 254 | 1:22,156 | 1,598 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 252 | 1:11,714 | 664 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 247 | 1:298,897 | 11,934 |
| Croatia | 100% | 202 | 1:20,877 | 1,112 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 192 | 1:17,852 | 1,040 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 191 | 1:113,144 | 5,688 |
| Ireland | 100% | 189 | 1:24,569 | 1,100 |
| Singapore | 100% | 182 | 1:34,544 | 5,928 |
| Greece | 100% | 177 | 1:61,777 | 2,009 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 165 | 1:58,442 | 3,379 |
| Papua New Guinea | 88% | 158 | 1:51,597 | 4,998 |
| Suriname | - | 148 | 1:3,735 | 834 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 147 | 1:37,230 | 691 |
| Cuba | - | 145 | 1:79,356 | 1,847 |
| Morocco | - | 136 | 1:252,564 | 6,008 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 126 | 1:55,479 | 2,616 |
| Hong Kong | - | 122 | 1:63,547 | 2,597 |
| Qatar | 100% | 112 | 1:21,157 | 3,074 |
| Malta | - | 102 | 1:4,209 | 603 |
| Kenya | 100% | 97 | 1:477,393 | 13,506 |
| Iceland | 100% | 95 | 1:3,853 | 506 |
| Kuwait | - | 95 | 1:39,845 | 3,619 |
| Moldova | - | 91 | 1:39,133 | 817 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 85 | 1:84,141 | 6,892 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 74 | 1:3,651 | 572 |
| South Korea | - | 65 | 1:85,299 | 4,635 |
| Iraq | 100% | 63 | 1:555,839 | 5,912 |
| Wales | 99% | 63 | 1:49,116 | 1,723 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 59 | 1:4,126 | 518 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 59 | 1:9,560 | 800 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 56 | 1:129,229 | 2,748 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 55 | 1:432,176 | 26,342 |
| Turkey | 86% | 54 | 1:1,440,772 | 12,019 |
| Angola | - | 36 | 1:749,072 | 2,190 |
| Rwanda | - | 36 | 1:315,873 | 1,243 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 34 | 1:1,445 | 309 |
| Uganda | 100% | 34 | 1:1,204,615 | 19,387 |
| Vietnam | - | 34 | 1:2,724,209 | 3,288 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 31 | 1:3,540 | 630 |
| Aruba | - | 29 | 1:3,579 | 715 |
| Guam | - | 28 | 1:5,737 | 966 |
| Israel | 95% | 28 | 1:300,104 | 7,626 |
| French Polynesia | - | 27 | 1:10,293 | 1,329 |
| Pakistan | 99% | 27 | 1:7,198,433 | 59,826 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 25 | 1:21,166 | 1,536 |
| Mongolia | - | 25 | 1:117,393 | 7,151 |
| Serbia | 100% | 22 | 1:324,806 | 4,173 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 22 | 1:701,083 | 28,034 |
| Belize | 100% | 21 | 1:16,872 | 2,067 |
| Botswana | - | 21 | 1:104,021 | 8,595 |
| Namibia | - | 21 | 1:114,485 | 4,736 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 20 | 1:2,639,416 | 22,786 |
| Benin | 100% | 19 | 1:556,623 | 17,687 |
| Burkina Faso | 88% | 19 | 1:967,340 | 27,076 |
| Monaco | 100% | 19 | 1:2,025 | 405 |
| Bermuda | - | 17 | 1:3,813 | 661 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 16 | 1:3,831 | 730 |
| Liberia | 100% | 16 | 1:275,754 | 8,947 |
| Madagascar | - | 16 | 1:1,476,838 | 2,504 |
| Myanmar | - | 16 | 1:3,246,767 | 1,079 |
| Afghanistan | - | 15 | 1:2,174,901 | 18,600 |
| Iran | - | 14 | 1:5,606,919 | 20,569 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 14 | 1:1,648,281 | 41,086 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 13 | 1:36,588 | 664 |
| Ukraine | - | 13 | 1:3,499,993 | 7,073 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 12 | 1:4,556 | 750 |
| Kosovo | - | 11 | 1:169,222 | 7,259 |
| Curaçao | - | 10 | 1:15,580 | 668 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 9 | 1:204,794 | 1,831 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Malawi | - | 9 | 1:1,901,368 | 9,999 |
| Togo | - | 9 | 1:804,360 | 4,738 |
| Jersey | - | 7 | 1:14,283 | 1,073 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 7 | 1:7,650 | 590 |
| Senegal | 100% | 6 | 1:2,430,226 | 14,702 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 6 | 1:226,903 | 11,844 |
| Brunei | - | 5 | 1:83,914 | 1,339 |
| Haiti | - | 5 | 1:2,145,391 | 20,367 |
| Zambia | - | 5 | 1:3,170,959 | 26,788 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Micronesia | - | 4 | 1:26,625 | 714 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 4 | 1:158,644 | 3,180 |
| Nepal | - | 4 | 1:7,121,838 | 62,014 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 4 | 1:44,454 | 3,465 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 4 | 1:3,382 | 74 |
| Bahamas | - | 3 | 1:133,123 | 2,262 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Isle of Man | - | 3 | 1:28,341 | 386 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Oman | - | 3 | 1:1,369,556 | 7,879 |
| Yemen | - | 3 | 1:8,765,584 | 9,038 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Congo | - | 2 | 1:2,504,602 | 31,783 |
| Jamaica | - | 2 | 1:1,441,614 | 15,741 |
| Niger | 100% | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| San Marino | - | 2 | 1:16,460 | 588 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 2 | 1:95,998 | 3,765 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Anguilla | - | 1 | 1:13,255 | 1,687 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Jordan | 77% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Marshall Islands | - | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | - | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 1 | 1:580,957 | 8,641 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
The alternate forms: Érik (105) & Erík (3) are calculated separately.
Erik (10,252) may also be a surname.
Erik Forename Meaning
Erik Forename Popularity
Erik Demographics
Average Male Erik Height
176.74 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 8,651 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Phonetically Similar Names
Erik Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Erik in the Russian language | ||
| Эрик | erik | - |
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