Erickson is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Erickson is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Erickson. In the SmartGenius ranking, Erickson is #3,083 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Erickson.
In fact, the name Erickson hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Erickson wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1987, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,173, 22 parents chose it in 1987 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Erickson, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Erickson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Erickson a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,739, for a total of 39 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Erickson seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Erickson is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 143 Americans in total bear this name. And these 143 men are located in only five states: California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Erickson and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Erickson in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 223,722 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Erickson present.
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 eight letters, the name Erickson is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If your name is Erickson 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Erickson, you can simply say:
Elephant
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Koala
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Erickson sounds like this:
