Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Eriks

#20,881 most common boys' name of all time · #54,955 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1960–1979

Rank among boys
#20,881
Rank overall
#54,955 of 105,966
First appeared
1960
Years on the list
7 of 146
All-time
41
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1971 #4,253
Best rank
#3,512 1965
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1960

Eriks first appears in 1960. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1979 — 5 5 #6,514
1971 — 7 7 #4,253
1968 — 5 5 #4,603
1966 — 6 6 #3,899
1965 — 7 7 #3,512
1962 — 6 6 #4,002
1960 — 5 5 #4,563