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Erol

Erol is a masculine given name. It is used in Turkish.

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Meaning & origin

How it developed

Built from Turkish er + ol.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Erol through the years

Babies since 1880
454
454 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1966
16 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02.557.5101960198020002025Highest share 19660.0
Erol in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1955–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1966. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 919 as a first name in 2020; 219 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.

Erol’s family of names

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The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Erol

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