# Erich (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/erich/  
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 | 11,706 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,674 / 32 (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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | 7,531 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,859 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,762 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,906 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,863 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17,616 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 49 | 2,519 |
| 2012 | 34 | 3,252 |
| 2013 | 39 | 2,907 |
| 2014 | 48 | 2,554 |
| 2015 | 28 | 3,809 |
| 2016 | 30 | 3,616 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,144 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,454 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,845 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,527 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,191 |
| 2022 | 25 | 4,211 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,643 |
| 2024 | 16 | 5,729 |
| 2025 | 15 | 5,937 |

## People named Erich

- Erich Maria Remarque, German-born novelist (1898–1970)
- Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989)
- Erich Ludendorff, German general and politician (1865–1937)
- Erich Kästner, German children's writer (1899–1974)
- Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (1887-1973)
- Erich Raeder, German admiral (1876–1960)
- Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director (1885–1957)
- Erich Hartmann, German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1993)
- Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of Germany's General Staff during the first two years of the First World War (1861-1
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
- Erich Segal, American writer (1937-2010)
- Erich Heckel, German artist (1883–1970)

## 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.