Eros
#1,323 for boys in 2025, 146 births
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,033since 1974
Eros over time
Rank among boys' names. Eros has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,323 | 146 |
| 2024 | #1,487 | 121 |
| 2023 | #1,380 | 135 |
| 2022 | #1,308 | 144 |
| 2021 | #1,461 | 123 |
| 2020 | #1,463 | 117 |
| 2019 | #1,574 | 106 |
| 2018 | #1,856 | 81 |
| 2017 | #2,065 | 67 |
| 2016 | #2,134 | 65 |
| 2015 | #2,112 | 66 |
| 2014 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #2,225 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,415 | 52 |
| 2011 | #2,261 | 57 |
| 2010 | #2,324 | 55 |
| 2009 | #2,528 | 50 |
| 2008 | #2,327 | 56 |
| 2007 | #2,337 | 55 |
| 2006 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #2,344 | 48 |
| 2003 | #2,507 | 41 |
| 2002 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #3,182 | 25 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
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| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Eros! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Eros is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#503 · 1 in 2,371
- Arizona#749 · 1 in 4,660
- Colorado#805 · 1 in 5,165
- Florida#920 · 1 in 6,626
- California#1,101 · 1 in 9,967
Best ever in a state: #503 in Nevada, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nevada | #503 | 5 | 1 in 2,371 |
| Arizona | #749 | 7 | 1 in 4,660 |
| Colorado | #805 | 5 | 1 in 5,165 |
| Florida | #920 | 14 | 1 in 6,626 |
| California | #1,101 | 19 | 1 in 9,967 |
| Texas | #1,193 | 16 | 1 in 10,695 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
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See more about Eros
- 164 spots since 2024 (#1,487 → #1,323)
- 140 spots since 2020 (#1,463 → #1,323)
- 789 spots since 2015 (#2,112 → #1,323)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2022 at #1,308 (144 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,699 boys born in 2025 were named Eros (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,308 in 2022, was only 1 in 12,125 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.7% of all boys named Eros (786) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 13 | #4,012 (1976) | #4,620 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 123 | #3,160 (1997) | #4,112 |
| 2000s | 448 | #2,327 (2008) | #2,508 |
| 2010s | 663 | #1,574 (2019) | #2,128 |
| 2020s | 786 | #1,308 (2022) | #1,404 |
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.
Eros in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 14,223 of them was named Eros, which outranked 89.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,454Khamari124
- #1,454Massiah124
- #1,454Zaylen124
- #1,461Eros123
- #1,461Anas123
- #1,461Atreyu123
- #1,461Emrys123
- #1,469Azai122
- #1,469Clinton122
- #1,469Cristopher122
Tied with 7 names at #1,461; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.