Eric
308
Babies in 2024
+2%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 470
-15%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Eric
Eric appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #162 with 308 boys registered in England & Wales.
Eric reached its peak in 2018, when 470 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #124 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 308 represents 66% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 6,654 boys have been officially registered with the name Eric in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 4,369 boys were registered with the name, starting from 301 in 2014 and ending at 308 in 2024.