# Erhard (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/erhard/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 110 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 110 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 7 | 2,742 |
| 1915 | 14 | 2,000 |
| 1916 | 9 | 2,779 |
| 1917 | 15 | 2,019 |
| 1918 | 6 | 3,867 |
| 1919 | 6 | 3,868 |
| 1920 | 9 | 3,033 |
| 1926 | 7 | 3,491 |
| 1928 | 6 | 3,841 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,151 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,388 |
| 1932 | 6 | 3,495 |
| 1933 | 7 | 3,099 |
| 1935 | 6 | 3,379 |

## People named Erhard

- Erhard Milch, German officer, NSDAP, most recently field marshal in the Third Reich, war criminal (1892–
- Erhard Schmidt, German mathematician (1876–1959)
- Erhard Heiden, German Nazi and 3rd Reichsführer-SS of the Schutzstaffel (1901-1933)
- Erhard Raus, German general (1889–1956)
- Erhard Busek, Austrian politician (1941-2022)
- Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (1956–2012)
- Eberhard of Friuli, Frankish saint
- Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and inventor (1625–1699)
- Anton Erhard Martinelli, Austrian architect
- Erhard Kroeger, Baltic German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1905–1987)
- Erhard Jakobsen, Danish politician
- Erhard Reuwich, Dutch artist (1445–1505)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.