Erik

• Eric, Erick, Eriq, Erique

A spelling variant of Eric, or directly borrowed from modern Swedish Erik.

Erik

1. A male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eric.
   • 2022 January 25, The Athletic Staff, “Sharks’ Erik Karlsson has surgery on left forearm; to be reevaluated in March”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson successfully underwent surgery to fix a muscle tear in his left forearm, according to the team. Per the Sharks, Karlsson is expected to be reevaluated in March.

• Erika

• rike, Keri, Riek, keri, Keir, k'rei, Rike, Kier, keir, kier

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrɪk]

Erik m anim (relational adjective Erikův)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Eric

From Old Norse Eiríkr. Borne by eight kings of Denmark.

Erik

1. a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Erika, equivalent to English Eric

• (surnames) Eriksen

• [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 118 507 males with the given name Erik have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the last frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Erik

1. a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eero, Erki, or Erko, feminine equivalent Erika, equivalent to English Eric

Variant of Eerik.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe(ː)rik/, [ˈe̞(ː)rik]
• Rhymes: -erik
• Syllabification^(key): E‧rik
• Hyphenation^(key): E‧rik

Erik

1. a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerik, Eerikki, Eero, or Erkki, feminine equivalent Erika, Eriika, or Eerika, equivalent to English Eric

• Erik is the 155^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,070 male individuals (and as a middle name to 20,980 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 10 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• keri, reki, rike

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Erik

1. a male given name from Old Norse, variant of Erich, feminine equivalent Erika or Erica, equivalent to English Eric

Monophthongised version of Eirik, from Old Norse Eiríkr.

Erik m

1. a male given name, variant of Eirik

• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 20 608 males with the given name Erik living in Norway on January 1st 2011. Accessed on 29th April, 2011.

Ultimately, from Old Norse Eiríkr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrik/

Erik m pers (genitive singular Erika, nominative plural Erikovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Eric

• Ero

• “Erik”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ɛ́ːrik/

Ȇrik m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Eric

• Eric
• Jerker (dialectal)

From Old Norse Eiríkr, from Proto-Norse *Aiwa-rikiaʀ (literally “ever ruler”).

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Erik

1. The letter "E" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Erik c (genitive Eriks)

1. a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Erika or Erica, equivalent to English Eric
   • 2014, Linda Olsson, I skymningen sjunger koltrasten, Brombergs Bokförlag, →ISBN:

     E. Blom. Vad stod e:et för? Erik? Det var egentligen det enda mansnamn för en så pass ung människa som hon kunde komma på. Ingen hette sådant som Evald, Einar eller Evert nuförtiden. Eller gjorde de?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Traditionally one of the most popular names in Sweden, said to have been borne by 14 kings (out of which 5 are now considered mythological).

• (surnames) Eriksson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 301 941 males with the given name Erik living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, without a clear frequency peak. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
• Erik in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• rike

Erik

1. a male given name