Erin

given name · English · Latin script

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

Erin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Irish Éirinn, poetic name for Ireland.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus1 in 44◐
  • RURussia1 in 48
  • UAUkraine1 in 51

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

≈1.1M ●

across 16 countries

#39 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
539 ●

16M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 65 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

ErinLatin · English●2.9M records
ИринаCyrillic · Russian●23M records
אירינהHebrew · Hebrew●141K records
ᲘრინაGeorgian · Georgian●23K records
อรุณาThai · Thai●572 records
ΙριναGreek · Greek●385 records
에린Hangul · Korean●73 records
এরিনBengali · Bangla●2 records
ԻրինաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ирина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Irena in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, HR Croatia, Irina in ES Spain, GE Georgia, BG Bulgaria and Ірина in UA Ukraine, FR France.

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●

From Irish Éirinn, poetic name for Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Erin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1021,547,2076.8M rec.—#12Ирина262
UA Ukraine#146,197,3576.1M rec.—listedІрина164
TR Türkiye#320311,28811K rec.——Ирина43
US United States#184293,7032.4M rec.1 in 1.1K294KErin539
PL Poland#40196,353△16K rec.1 in 195196KIrena140
AU Australia#176128,42487K rec.—86Erin246
IL Israel#71122,133122K rec.—1.3Kאירינה61
ES Spain—118,193△15K rec.1 in 423118KIrina99
GB United Kingdom#284112,46791K rec.—689Erin227
BR Brazil—109,806△72 rec.1 in 1.9K137K—4
BY Belarus#897,60241K rec.—16Ирина65
FR France—82,235△412 rec.1 in 82582KІрина15

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

Languages●

  • English2.9M85%
  • 123K4%
  • Spanish98K3%
  • French27K1%
  • German24K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,852,78285%
123,4284%
Spanish98,2153%
French27,2691%
German24,3531%

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◐

Erin is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name170K records spelled Erin31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, France, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Estella, Erín, Estel-La, Eriñ, Erïn

  • a separate given name132K records spelled Erin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Erín, Érin, Ėrin

  • Polish given name16K records spelled Erin29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Croatia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Эрин, Ерин, Ирин, Irin, Ерін

  • Finnish given name12K records spelled Erin4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, Slovenia

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Érin

  • Indonesian given name11K records spelled Erin6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Erin, Ěrîň, Erín

  • Greek given name6.6K records spelled Erin2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Εριν

61 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●

Erin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Ireland.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Ireland; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, Origine irlandaise, du nom de l’Irlande.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Irish Gaelic; from Ireland

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • English and Irish: from Gaelic Éirinn , dative case of Éire Ireland. Erin has been used as a poetic name for Ireland for centuries, and in recent years this has become a very popular given name. It has enjoyed particular popularity in the United States, even among people with no Irish ancestry.

    as a word

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●

05K10K15K19001950200015K · 1983

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Erin in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1888–2025
Yearrecords
18885
18896
18909
18945
189511
18966
189710
189811
19009
19027
190310
19047
19059
190610
19078
19085
190915
19109
19119
191214
191320
191421
191529
191626
191730
191823
191928
192025
192129
192216
192334
192419
192510
192610
192715
192818
19297
19309
19319
193216
193318
193422
193520
193618
193726
193835
193925
194027
194140
194242
194345
194450
194549
194667
194781
194859
194976
195077
195197
195288
195386
1954175
1955175
1956305
19571,014
19581,136
19591,229
19601,155
19611,133
19621,062
19631,200
19641,426
19651,463
19661,523
19671,685
19681,864
19693,059
19703,480
19713,856
19723,289
19733,877
19745,868
19756,894
19768,381
197710,198
197810,786
197911,259
198013,428
198113,853
198214,362
198314,836
198412,622
198511,384
198610,068
19878,847
19888,267
19898,144
19907,989
19917,207
19927,059
19936,717
19946,908
19956,565
19966,256
19975,940
19985,471
19995,223
20005,185
20014,958
20024,145
20033,926
20043,367
20052,908
20062,644
20072,477
20082,064
20091,696
20101,441
20111,350
20121,235
20131,168
20141,022
2015974
2016925
2017777
2018743
2019650
2020581
2021527
2022427
2023451
2024352
2025327

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 133 years between 1888–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Erin Brockovich, b. 1960Grey DeLisle, b. 1973Erin Daniels, b. 1973Emily Deschanel, b. 1976Erin Cummings, b. 1977St. Vincent, b. 1982Erin Wasson, b. 1982Erin Darke, b. 1984Erin Heatherton, b. 1989Erin Moriarty, b. 1994

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 93 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Erin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020294K#170
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.7K#170
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.4K#940
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.8K#1,160
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.7K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—777#3,400
GB United KingdomONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024)2024689#65
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—670#945
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—657#1,808
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—420#2,831
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—417#3,608
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021407—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,220 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Erin?
We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Erin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
In which country does Erin have the most bearers?
Erin is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled ирина.
How common is Erin compared with other names?
In Russia, Erin is the 10th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Erin a male or female name?
Erin is a female 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 Erin mean?
Recorded meaning: From Irish Éirinn, poetic name for Ireland.
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About this data

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

Data snapshot . 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, “Erin” — the 10th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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