Eriks

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Eriks is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name2.8K records spelled Eriks7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Mexico

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Erik'S, Ēriks, Ériks

• Norwegian Bokmål given name283 records spelled Eriks6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Latvia

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Ēriks

• Finnish given name269 records spelled Eriks4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Latvia, Estonia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Ēriks

• French given name116 records spelled Eriks3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Latvia, United Kingdom, United States

  Also written Ēriks, Ériks

• a separate given name101 records spelled Eriks2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Latvia

  Also written Ēriks

34 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●

Eriks 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, Vīrieša vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Jac. Eriksb. 1895NLDutch painter (1895-1965)
• S. S. EriksChairman of Mullard Ltd 1930-1962

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 97 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eriks?

We estimate roughly 5.9 thousand people bear Eriks (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Eriks have the most bearers?

We estimate about 5.4 thousand people bear Eriks in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled eriks.

Where is Eriks most common?

Eriks is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 346 people carrying it.

Is Eriks a male or female name?

Eriks 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 Eriks mean?

Recorded meaning: grieķu mitoloģijā - argonauta Būta (variants: Poseidona) un Afrodītes dēls, kuru Hērkals uzvarēja divkaujā un nogalināja