Erasmus

Last seen for boys in 2021 at #10,799

Peak · boys
1881 · 6 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
117
since 1880

Erasmus over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Erasmus has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201880peak #781, 1881boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021#10,7996
2020#10,6056
2019
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2015
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2012
2011#10,8086
2010#12,2315
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2000#10,3495
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1972#4,9865
1971
1970#4,7245
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1942#3,5605
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1926#3,7086
1925#4,1975
1924
1923
1922#3,8726
1921#3,2148
1920#4,2865
1919#3,3917
1918#3,7286
1917
1916#3,8975
1915#3,8255
1914
1913#2,8215
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1882#9435
1881#7816
1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Erasmus was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Erasmus
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
  • Biggest jump: 128 spots in 1881 (#909#781)
  • Biggest drop: 162 spots in 1882 (#781#943)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1881 at #781 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1880–1882
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,789
  • Highest: 1 in 16,789 boys born in 1881 were named Erasmus (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,580 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 25.6% of all boys named Erasmus (30) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s16#781 (1881)#878
1890s0
1900s0
1910s28#2,821 (1913)#3,532
1920s30#3,214 (1921)#3,855
1930s0
1940s5#3,560 (1942)#3,560
1950s0
1960s0
1970s10#4,724 (1970)#4,855
1980s0
1990s0
2000s5#10,349 (2000)#10,349
2010s11#10,808 (2011)#11,520
2020s12#10,605 (2020)#10,702

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Erasmus in 1880

boys
#909
5 births · 1 in 22,098 boys

Top boys' names in 1880

  1. #1John9,655
  2. #2William9,532
  3. #3James5,927
  4. #4Charles5,348
  5. #5George5,126
  6. #6Frank3,242
  7. #7Joseph2,632
  8. #8Thomas2,534
  9. #9Henry2,444
  10. #10Robert2,415
  11. #909Erasmus5
More about 1880

boys

110,490 boys got a published name in 1880; 1 in 22,098 of them was named Erasmus, which outranked 14.1% of the 1,058 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 44.2% of boys (8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Erasmus
  1. #809Willian6
  2. #809Yee6
  3. #809Zeke6
  4. #909Erasmus5
  5. #909Ab5
  6. #909Abbott5
  7. #909Agustus5

Tied with 149 names at #909; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

See the top 100 for 1880