MEANING & HISTORY
What does Erico mean?
Nordic Names explicitly identifies Erico as an Erik variant and cites a medieval Swedish personal-name source. The linked Old Norse family combines enduring or always with ruler.
This is evidence for exact unaccented Erico, not an assumption based on adding or removing an accent from Portuguese Érico.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Erico in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
ERICOCSV record 12,525 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Erico in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Erico
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Enrico♂Home and ruler
- Eric♂Ever-ruler, in the usual Norse analysis
- Éric♂French Eric: enduring ruler in the Old Norse name family
- Erick·Variant of Eric: ever ruler
- Rico♂Short form of Ricardo, Enrico and related names
- Chico♂Diminutive of Francisco
- Eraño·Reported new-era formation associated with Eraño Manalo
- Eri♀Favour and reason in the documented 恵理 spelling
What rhymes with Erico?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Recorded combinations with Erico
2 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
- Erico Basilio·Erico in the Eric family; Basilio in the royal-name family
- Erico Joseph·Erico in the Eric family; Joseph: he will add
Explore Erico further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Behind the Name — Eric (opens in a new tab)
Old Norse ever/enduring and ruler elements.
- Nordic Names — Erico (opens in a new tab)
Exact Erik variant, citing Svenska medeltida personnamn; secondary scholarly-reference route, not direct inspection of that book.