Given name & surname · also Latin
Erice
Erice is a surname from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Italian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Erice comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Erice through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 264
- 234 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 196 as a first name in 2020; 263 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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