Erasmo

Where Erasmo comes from

Erasmo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1370
    Erasmo of Narni born
    Italian mercenary
  2. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1941
    Erasmo Carlos born
    Brazilian singer
  4. 1951
    Peak, #929
    57 babies named Erasmo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,513.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Erasmo of Narni · Italian mercenary, 1370–1443
  • Erasmo Carlos · Brazilian singer, 1941–2022
  • Erasmo Salemme · Italian volleyball player, born 1946
  • Erasmo Ramírez · professional baseball player, born 1990
  • Erasmo Bartoli · Italian composer, 1606–1656

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.