About the name Erich
Erich belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Erich first appears in Social Security records in 1894. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #441 in 1971, and in 2024 16 babies received the name — 11,660 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.