Masculine dossier · first seen 1898

Erskine

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Erskine
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1947

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1898Peak 19472024

Peak year

1947

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,996

Erskine has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1947, when 48 boys were named Erskine.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,996 Americans have been named Erskine and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1898.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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