Ēriks

Name: Ēriks: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Latvian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ēriks is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.

rarermore common

LVLatvia1 in 346◐
ISIceland1 in 29K
SESweden1 in 196K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈5.9K ●
Sources: 123 ●
: 1 in 346 ◐

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Eriks1.6K

Locally spelled Eriks in LV Latvia, US United States, NL Netherlands and 9 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ēriks is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
LV Latvia	5,443△	65 rec.	1 in 346	5.4K	Eriks	27
GB United Kingdom	180	306 rec.	—	listed	Eriks	25
US United States	175	2.7K rec.	1 in 1.9M	270	Eriks	123
BR Brazil	156△	4 rec.	1 in 1.4M	156	Eriks	2
DE Germany	141	135 rec.	—	—	Eriks	43
AU Australia	86	122 rec.	—	3	Eriks	18
SE Sweden	52△	6 rec.	1 in 196K	52	—	4
PL Poland	28△	3 rec.	1 in 1.4M	28	—	1
DK Denmark	25	—	1 in 235K	25	—	—
CA Canada	19	56 rec.	—	—	Eriks	12
RU Russia	13	10 rec.	—	—	Eriks	6
IS Iceland	12	—	1 in 29K	12	—	—
PE Peru	10	7 rec.	—	—	Eriks	6
NL Netherlands	7	76 rec.	—	228	Eriks	20
IE Ireland	6	21 rec.	—	—	Eriks	3
AT Austria	5	3 rec.	—	—	Eriks	6
CR Costa Rica	3	0 rec.	1 in 1.7M	3	—	1
NO Norway	—	2 rec.	—	160	—	1
FI Finland	—	1 rec.	—	139	—	1
EE Estonia	—	0 rec.	—	12	—	1
CL Chile	—	—	—	1	—	—
FO Faroe Islands	—	—	—	1	—	—
EC Ecuador	—	—	—	1	—	—
FR France	—	—	—	listed	—	—

Roughly 5.4K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 346). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

Latvian7.4K98%
Russian341%
English231%
German211%
Lithuanian131%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Latvian	7,361	98%
Russian	34	1%
English	23	1%
German	21	1%
Lithuanian	13	1%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ēriks is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

rulv given name14 records spelled Ēriks2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia
Also written Eriks
Lithuanian given name13 records spelled Ēriks2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania
Also written Eriks
Croatian given name12 records spelled Ēriks9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia
Also written Eriks
Finnish given name12 records spelled Ēriks4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Finland, Latvia, Estonia
Languages: Finnish, Estonian
Also written Eriks
Portuguese given name11 records spelled Ēriks7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Mexico
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Eriks, Erik'S, Ériks
a separate given name10 records spelled Ēriks2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Latvia
Also written Eriks
Italian given name5 records spelled Ēriks2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia
Also written Eriks

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ēriks is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In Latvian, Eiro
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

Ēriks Rauskab. 1899LVLatvian weightlifter
Ēriks Pētersonsb. 1909LVLatvian footballer and hockey player (1909–1987)
Ēriks Raistersb. 1913LVLatvian footballer (1913-1942)
Ēriks Lazdiņšb. 1914LVLatvian chess player (1914-1997)
Ēriks Lācisb. 1938LVLatvian film director (1938-2005)
Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņšb. 1949LVLatvian politician and diplomat (1949–2021)
Ēriks Grigjansb. 1964LVLatvian association football player (born 1964)
Ēriks Ešenvaldsb. 1977LVLatvian choral composer (born 1977)
Ēriks Pelcisb. 1978LVLatvian footballer
Ēriks Ševčenkob. 1991LVLatvian ice hockey player (born 1991)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Ēriks
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
LV Latvia	PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)	—	5.4K	—
LV Latvia	PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)	—	5.4K	#90
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)	2026	28	#5,117
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	26	#5,030
EE Estonia	Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023	2023	—	—

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ēriks?: We estimate roughly 5.9 thousand people bear Ēriks (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Ēriks have the most bearers?: We estimate about 5.4 thousand people bear Ēriks in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eriks.
Where is Ēriks most common?: Ēriks is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 346 people carrying it.
Is Ēriks a male or female name?: Ēriks is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ēriks mean?: Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ēriks”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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