This page shows the Eric (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Eric was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Eric's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Eric for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Eric appears in 52 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 735 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 49 babies given the name, at rank 90 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Eric for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202510333
202416246
202313278
202217236
20216477
202013292
201914278
201818240
201710352
201617256
201524211
201418245
20136466
201218246
20119364
201011319
20098375
20088366
20077378
20067344
20056365
20049274
20033480
20027282
20013423
20004375
19996288
19985322
19976291
19968246
199510214
19944325
19939223
199213197
19919225
19908229
198911188
198816149
198717146
198621129
198525121
198417136
198322124
198221121
198119129
198023117
197918131
197835101
197728106
197617131
197536101
19744990

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