Given name & surname
Eriko
“a child with a collar”
Eriko is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “a child with a collar.”
Original Japanese絵里子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a child with a collar.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eriko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78
- 0 boys · 78 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 12 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 girls is 6 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 801 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eriko’s family of names
In Esperanto usage, Eriko has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eric. Eriko has a related form in Eryko. In Esperanto usage, Eriko has a conventional equivalent in the French form Éric.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eriko has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Japanese roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 7
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eriko
- Eriko ArakawaJapanese association football playerborn 1979
- Eriko SatoJapanese association football playerborn 1985
- Eriko TamuraJapanese actress and singerborn 1973
- Eriko HatsuneJapanese actressborn 1982
- Eriko MatsuiJapanese voice actressborn 1989
- Eriko HiroseJapanese badminton playerborn 1985
- Eriko SatoJapanese actress, tarento, model and gravure idolborn 1981
- PileJapanese singer and voice actressborn 1988
- Eriko IshinoJapanese speed skaterborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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