Erick
A Germanic name meaning "eternal ruler", used in Poland in its English and Spanish spelling. Fewer than 150 men here carry it, and almost no one gives it now: most Poles have never met an Erick.
Erick Pronunciation
What Erick means
Where Erick comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Erick comes from Germanic roots, a spelling of the older Eric and the Norse Eiríkr. Two elements join in it. One means ever or eternal, the other means ruler. Together they give the sense recorded for Polish readers as wieczny władca, the eternal ruler.
The name moved south only after it had grown in the north. Erik the Red, the Norse settler who reached Greenland around the year 985, carried an early form of it. Centuries later the spelling with a c and a k spread through English and Spanish speakers alike, and Erick became common across Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States.
That double life is the interesting part. The same three syllables answer to an English teacher and to a Spanish one without changing.
In a Polish class register today, Erick sits a letter away from Eryk, the same name in a different coat. The eternal ruler still stands behind it.
How many people are named Erick
1 in 146207 men in Poland is named Erick. 146 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2682 among male names.
Erick's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Erick as a middle name
Erick is a first name for 146 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2059th, between Emerson (19) and Farai (19).
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#2057 Duran19
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#2058 Emerson19
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#2059 Erick19
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#2060 Farai19
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#2061 Filippo19