Erik

Erik is the Scandinavian spelling of Eric, from the Old Norse Eirikr, roughly "eternal ruler" or "ever-powerful." It was borne by Erik the Red, the tenth-century Viking who founded the first European settlement in Greenland, and by a long line of Swedish and Danish kings. The K gives the name a crisper, more distinctly Nordic edge than its C-spelled twin. In America it currently sits at 476, steady and understated. Two syllables, short and direct, with no wasted sound. Erik reads as practical, quietly strong, and internationally at home, a name that belongs equally in Stockholm, Minneapolis, and Buenos Aires.