Given name & surname
Errett
“prosperity”·“advice, wisdom”
Errett is a masculine given name from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Errett is built from elements meaning “prosperity” and “advice, wisdom”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Errett through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 23
- 23 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 7 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 1930. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 101 as a first name in 2020; 520 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.
People named Errett
- Errett Lobban CordFounder of the Cord Corporation (1894-1974)
- Errett P. ScrivnerRecipient of the Purple Heart medal (1898-1978)
- Errett BishopAmerican mathematician (1928–1983)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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