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How popular is the name Errol?
Births per year, rank history and how many Errols are alive today.
Errol (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 2664th in 2025 and given to 8 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2018, when 17 babies were given the name, the 1455th most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2025 figure is roughly 47% of its peak. Errol is one spelling of a name also recorded as Erol; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Errol you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old - or else around 31: the name has two living generations. Half of all Errols born in England and Wales are between 8 and 31, and there are at least 370 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Errol - on average, only one in every 819 such rooms contains a Errol.
How many babies are named Errol each year?
Includes all spellings: Errol, Erol. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Errol spelling rank?
Where does the Erol spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Errol most popular?
Errol peaked in 2018, when 20 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Errol?
At least 370 people named Errol in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Errol?
Most living Errols are between 8 and 31; the most common age is about 8. There is a second cluster around 31.
Is Errol becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2018 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.