How Many People Are Named Erskine?
people named Erskine are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 361,294 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,996 babies named Erskine in Social Security records from 1898 to 2011, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
48 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was originally derived from the name of a Scottish town meaning "projecting height" in Gaelic. A famous bearer of the name was the Irish novelist and nationalist Erskine Childers (1870-1922).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Erskine in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Erskine alive today is about 60 years old, and 51% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Erskine first appears in the records in 1898 and was given most often in 1947, to 48 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2011.
Babies given the name each year, 1898 to 2011
🏆 Rank History
Erskine has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,035, in 1921.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,035 (1921) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,353 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Erskine alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Erskine were born in Alabama than in any other state: about 119 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Erskine was given about 34.2 times as often in Alabama.
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