Given name
Éric
“always, eternal”
Éric is a masculine given name. It is used in French.
Original Old NorseEiríkr
Meaning & origin
What it means
Éric possibly goes back to Old Norse Eiríkr, meaning “always, eternal.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Éric’s family of names
In French usage, Éric shares an earlier linguistic root with EURIC. In French usage, Éric has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eric. In French usage, Éric has a related form in Erik.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Éric has relatives in 46 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Éric comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 63
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- EiríkrOld Norse
- Henryequivalent
- Ericborrowing · German, English
- Erickequivalent
- Enriqueequivalent
- Harryequivalent
- Haroldequivalent
- Henrikequivalent
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- Henriequivalent
- Hendrikequivalent
- Henriqueequivalent
- Enricoequivalent
- Henrykequivalent
- Heinrichequivalent
- Haraldequivalent
- ErichGerman
- EeroFinnish
- EirikNorwegian
- ErykPolish
- Hendricequivalent
- Henrichequivalent
- Heinzequivalent
- Henkequivalent
- Heinequivalent
- Enricequivalent
- EricoItalian, Spanish
- ErikoEsperanto
- Andrinequivalent
- Hinrichequivalent
- Hynekequivalent
- Henricusequivalent
- ÉricoPortuguese
- Éricafeminine form · French
- Érikafeminine form · French
- Euricdoublet · French
- Henrikasequivalent
- Henrihequivalent
- ErikiMāori
- ErikasLithuanian
- ĒriksLatvian
- EricusLatin
- EerikGreenlandic, Finnish
- エリックJapanese
- EiríkurIcelandic
- एरिकHindi
- ΕρίκοςGreek
- ერიქGeorgian
- EuricoGalician
- ErkkiFinnish
- EirikurFaroese
- 에릭Korean
- 埃里克Chinese
- 艾里克Chinese
- ᎡꮅꭹCherokee
- ÈricCatalan
- ЭрыкBelarusian
- এরিকBengali
- ԷրիկArmenian
- إِرِيكArabic
- ЕрікUkrainian
And 3 more.
People named Éric
- Erik SatieFrench composer and pianist (1866-1925)
- Eric CantonaFrench footballer and actor (born 1966)
- Éric-Emmanuel SchmittFrench-Belgian writerborn 1960
- Éric ZemmourFrench politician and writerborn 1958
- Erik of PomeraniaKing of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Kalmar Union1381–1459
- Eric Bloodaxe10th-century Norwegian ruler895–954
- Eric BerneCanadian psychiatrist (1910-1970)
- Eric II of NorwayNorwegian king1268–1299
- Éric BoullierFrench motor racing engineer and managerborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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