as a First Name
Anglicized form of Irish Éirinn. Erin has been used as a poetic name for Ireland for centuries, and in recent years this has become a popular given name in the English-speaking world, even among people with no Irish connections.
| 185th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 272,741
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 309,289
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Erin per capita
- 1983
- marked the height of its popularity
98%
2%
0.53%
55+
55+
42%
30-54
30-54
36%
13-29
13-29
21%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
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