Erin Forename
2,362nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 432,785 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Canada
Erin Forename User-submission:
Erin is from the Gaelic languages, it means 'from Ireland'. It is derived from the word Eire, which is the Irish word for Ireland.
Erin Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 343,734 | 1:1,055 | 229 |
| Canada | 100% | 36,933 | 1:897 | 198 |
| Australia | - | 12,618 | 1:1,082 | 224 |
| Indonesia | 89% | 7,287 | 1:35,401 | 4,696 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 4,582 | 1:34,802 | 3,368 |
| England | 100% | 4,401 | 1:12,634 | 932 |
| New Zealand | - | 3,852 | 1:1,178 | 277 |
| Sudan | - | 1,586 | 1:23,838 | 2,295 |
| Uganda | 99% | 1,394 | 1:29,381 | 2,100 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1,359 | 1:15,305 | 2,132 |
| South Africa | 92% | 1,182 | 1:46,136 | 4,887 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,106 | 1:4,838 | 473 |
| Egypt | 100% | 1,084 | 1:84,779 | 4,065 |
| Thailand | 97% | 967 | 1:72,457 | 6,862 |
| China | - | 807 | 1:1,692,758 | 40,690 |
| Philippines | 76% | 751 | 1:141,158 | 7,039 |
| Malaysia | 89% | 680 | 1:44,779 | 3,790 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 652 | 1:25,923 | 2,261 |
| Honduras | 100% | 593 | 1:14,869 | 1,234 |
| Spain | 91% | 479 | 1:97,140 | 2,843 |
| Afghanistan | 53% | 402 | 1:81,153 | 3,091 |
| India | 64% | 349 | 1:3,481,026 | 150,600 |
| Ireland | 100% | 307 | 1:15,125 | 884 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 291 | 1:105,885 | 10,050 |
| Poland | 81% | 236 | 1:161,132 | 3,078 |
| Wales | 100% | 222 | 1:13,938 | 941 |
| Israel | 90% | 219 | 1:38,369 | 2,691 |
| Brazil | 100% | 214 | 1:1,001,104 | 26,277 |
| Northern Ireland | 96% | 195 | 1:9,452 | 743 |
| Germany | 80% | 193 | 1:500,922 | 5,290 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 191 | 1:54,614 | 3,526 |
| Mexico | 60% | 191 | 1:649,971 | 6,467 |
| Albania | 87% | 160 | 1:19,041 | 2,475 |
| Peru | 63% | 157 | 1:202,493 | 5,283 |
| Qatar | 96% | 156 | 1:15,190 | 2,346 |
| Japan | - | 145 | 1:882,662 | 14,274 |
| Colombia | 99% | 141 | 1:338,858 | 6,247 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 141 | 1:17,438 | 1,183 |
| France | 99% | 132 | 1:503,563 | 5,404 |
| Guatemala | 91% | 131 | 1:122,965 | 2,417 |
| Singapore | 100% | 124 | 1:50,702 | 6,701 |
| South Korea | - | 122 | 1:45,446 | 3,195 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Russia | 91% | 113 | 1:1,276,404 | 10,074 |
| Turkey | 54% | 110 | 1:707,288 | 8,371 |
| Papua New Guinea | 89% | 105 | 1:77,641 | 7,345 |
| Sweden | 93% | 105 | 1:93,885 | 4,122 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 100 | 1:302,019 | 9,553 |
| Chile | 81% | 87 | 1:202,382 | 3,709 |
| Finland | 100% | 82 | 1:66,868 | 1,956 |
| Norway | 100% | 68 | 1:75,475 | 2,710 |
| Hong Kong | - | 67 | 1:115,712 | 2,893 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 63 | 1:130,373 | 3,663 |
| Costa Rica | 57% | 62 | 1:76,902 | 2,799 |
| Italy | 89% | 62 | 1:984,872 | 8,569 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 60 | 1:119,200 | 8,726 |
| Nicaragua | 75% | 59 | 1:102,006 | 3,533 |
| Ecuador | - | 57 | 1:310,999 | 4,245 |
| Kuwait | - | 57 | 1:66,408 | 5,422 |
| Portugal | - | 55 | 1:189,288 | 4,092 |
| Barbados | - | 50 | 1:5,796 | 822 |
| Czechia | 94% | 50 | 1:213,123 | 1,642 |
| Panama | 100% | 50 | 1:78,131 | 4,279 |
| Nigeria | 59% | 47 | 1:3,777,965 | 62,190 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 37 | 1:642,424 | 31,558 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 35 | 1:525,128 | 17,641 |
| Belgium | 100% | 34 | 1:337,942 | 6,477 |
| Guam | - | 31 | 1:5,182 | 901 |
| Mongolia | 100% | 31 | 1:94,671 | 6,256 |
| Romania | 100% | 29 | 1:691,447 | 18,806 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 29 | 1:46,945 | 4,279 |
| Belize | 100% | 26 | 1:13,627 | 1,804 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 23 | 1:13,832 | 1,340 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 22 | 1:2,786 | 595 |
| Bermuda | - | 21 | 1:3,087 | 575 |
| Iraq | - | 19 | 1:1,843,045 | 11,423 |
| Denmark | - | 18 | 1:313,861 | 5,872 |
| Jamaica | - | 17 | 1:169,602 | 6,000 |
| Malta | - | 17 | 1:25,256 | 1,655 |
| Botswana | - | 16 | 1:136,528 | 10,720 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 14 | 1:7,839 | 1,133 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 14 | 1:6,615,937 | 3,775 |
| Kenya | - | 13 | 1:3,562,085 | 22,986 |
| Greece | 100% | 12 | 1:911,212 | 9,057 |
| Argentina | 63% | 11 | 1:3,888,477 | 10,916 |
| Jersey | - | 11 | 1:9,089 | 812 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 10 | 1:1,627,333 | 20,911 |
| Iceland | - | 10 | 1:36,602 | 2,190 |
| Bahrain | - | 9 | 1:149,853 | 3,890 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 9 | 1:6,074 | 908 |
| Hungary | 100% | 7 | 1:1,398,824 | 3,444 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Austria | 100% | 6 | 1:1,419,034 | 8,656 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Belarus | 67% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Cameroon | - | 5 | 1:4,322,101 | 63,776 |
| El Salvador | - | 5 | 1:1,268,357 | 7,255 |
| Namibia | - | 5 | 1:480,836 | 6,391 |
| Uruguay | - | 5 | 1:685,527 | 7,487 |
| Zambia | - | 5 | 1:3,170,959 | 26,788 |
| Zimbabwe | 80% | 5 | 1:3,084,763 | 72,050 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Ghana | - | 4 | 1:6,746,554 | 8,075 |
| Malawi | 100% | 4 | 1:4,278,078 | 13,569 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Benin | 100% | 3 | 1:3,525,281 | 51,145 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Croatia | 100% | 3 | 1:1,405,692 | 11,430 |
| Dominica | - | 3 | 1:25,157 | 718 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Saint Lucia | 67% | 3 | 1:59,272 | 4,116 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 3 | 1:37,193 | 3,592 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 3 | 1:17,596,106 | 69,562 |
| Cape Verde | - | 2 | 1:264,576 | 4,841 |
| Isle of Man | - | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Kazakhstan | 50% | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Marshall Islands | 50% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Micronesia | - | 2 | 1:53,250 | 1,276 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 2 | 1:290,478 | 6,813 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Abkhazia | - | 1 | 1:243,422 | 3,525 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Congo | - | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Estonia | 100% | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guyana | - | 1 | 1:763,262 | 24,238 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Liberia | 100% | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Pakistan | - | 1 | 1:194,357,680 | 303,535 |
| Paraguay | - | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Erín (2) are calculated separately.
Erin (13,173) may also be a surname.
Erin Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Erin is from the Gaelic languages, it means 'from Ireland'. It is derived from the word Eire, which is the Irish word for Ireland.
- bluebabyThe name Erin derives from Erin go Bragh, an anglicization of Eire go Brach, which means 'Ireland forever' in Gaelic.
- erinmccThe name Erin is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning 'from the island to the west'.
- e1rapozaThe name Erin is a girls' name of Irish origin meaning 'from the island to the west'.
- erinmurphErin Forename Popularity
Erin Demographics
Erin Political Affiliation
in United States
Sample size: 57,910 (2014)
United States
Average
Phonetically Similar Names
Erin Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Erin in the Russian language | ||
| Эрин | erin | - |
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