Yerik

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 30 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
30
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Yerik by the numbers

Yerik was given to 30 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 128 babies in 2011, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Yerik

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Yerik. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Yerick8 in the US (2017)
  • Yehiagod is gracious; a form of John14 in the US (2017)
  • Yerielgod is my light; variant of Uriel14 in the US (2017)
  • YefimGod establishes; Russian form of Ephraim5 in the US (2017)
  • Yuriyearth-worker; a form of George5 in the US (2017)
  • Yeray12 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Yerik

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