Given name
Eiríkur
Eiríkur is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.
Original Old NorseEiríkr
Meaning & origin
Eiríkur’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Eiríkur shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Bokmål form Erik. In Icelandic usage, Eiríkur has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eric. In Icelandic usage, Eiríkur has a related form in Erik.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eiríkur has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Eiríkur comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 30
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Eiríkrolder form · Old Norse
- Henryequivalent
- EricEnglish
- Enriqueequivalent
- Harryequivalent
- Haroldequivalent
- Henrikequivalent
- Henriequivalent
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- Hendrikequivalent
- Henriqueequivalent
- Henrykequivalent
- Heinrichequivalent
- Haraldequivalent
- Erichequivalent
- Eirikcognate · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
- Erykequivalent
- Henkequivalent
- Heinequivalent
- Enricequivalent
- Henrichequivalent
- Heinzequivalent
- Ericusequivalent
- Hinrichequivalent
- Hynekequivalent
- ÉricoPortuguese
- ÉricFrench
- Henrikasequivalent
- Èricequivalent
- Henrihequivalent
- Andrinequivalent
People named Eiríkur
- Eiríkur HaukssonIcelandic singerborn 1959
- Eiríkur Örn NorðdahlIcelandic writerborn 1978
- Eiríkur MagnússonIcelandic librarian, scholar and translator of Old Norse (1833–1913)
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