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The first name 
Erick

Erick is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Erick – popular and common in the US!

The name Erick isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Erick ranks 262. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 8 were named Erick. In the entire USA, approximately 72,944 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Erick. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Erick

What does the name 
Erick mean?

Erick means ‘ever ruler’, derived from the Old Norse name Eiríkr. It consists of the elements ‘ei’ for ‘ever, always’ and ‘ríkr’ for ‘ruler, king’.

The name Erick,... usually spelled Eric, is one of the most commonly used Germanic names in the United States, along with Robert and William.

Erick has 5 letters 
and begins with an E

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With five letters, the name Erick is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.

Other names with 
E, r, i, c and k

If you take all the letters in the name Erick – E, r, i, c and k – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Erikc or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Erick

If your name is Erick and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Erick

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Erick, you can simply say:

Elephant

Rocket

Igloo

Cat

Koala

This is how the name Erick is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Erick in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Erick

Erick

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Erick

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Erick is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
R
I
C
K

Have you ever waved the name Erick

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

E
R
I
C
K

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Erick sounds like this: