Erin

What Erin means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Erin yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #335 in 2015, #833 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Erin?

US: Falling: down from #335 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #43 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1983, when 14,836 girls got the name (#18 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 4,915 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 400 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 497 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (0.61 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.57 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.49 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Erin is #833 in the US and #72 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.7% of US babies named Erin were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Eryn44 US · 29 E&W
• Arin34 US · 5 E&W
• Aryn30 US
• Erynn19 US
• Aeryn12 US · 5 E&W
• Aerin12 US · 4 E&W
• Eren7 US
• Eirinn0 US · 7 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Erin

Girls

• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Jasmine#206Editor’s note Down from #110 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 in the US
• Rachel#250“ewe”^*

For a brother

• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*
• Nicholas#112“victory + people”^*
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*
• Matthew#32“gift of the Lord”^*
• Justin#233“just”^*
• Eric#273Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 23,571 babies; 1,256 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Erin’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.