Meaning not yet researched.
Ericka: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #301 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #301 in 1972; #2,624 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ericka in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,624 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #301.
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Ericka: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #301 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 910 (1971).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Ericka, making it the 2,624th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,289 places from #3,913 in 2024. That is 28 more than the 38 girls named Ericka in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #301, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 910, in 1971. For comparison, it was #2,363 in 2015 and #4,907 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ericka in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 7 babies. In all, 23,466 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 6,747 babies named Ericka.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 538 US girls were named Ericka; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ericka ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,950 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Erica (232,637 babies since 1880), Erika (126,212 babies since 1880) and Eryka (1,171 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ricka are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ricka (89).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ericka in the open dataset we use.
Ericka is listed as a nickname for Fredericka.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,950 | #1,494 |
| California | 9 | #2,154 | #2,212 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,058 | — | — |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 2015 | 78 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2008 | 192 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 2007 | 217 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 2006 | 262 | #993 | — | — |
| 2005 | 220 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2004 | 244 | #977 | — | — |
| 2003 | 313 | #788 | — | — |
| 2002 | 283 | #825 | — | — |
| 2001 | 326 | #735 | — | — |
| 2000 | 392 | #637 | — | — |
| 1999 | 371 | #636 | — | — |
| 1998 | 452 | #549 | — | — |
| 1997 | 403 | #576 | — | — |
| 1996 | 432 | #540 | — | — |
| 1995 | 490 | #501 | — | — |
| 1994 | 536 | #472 | — | — |
| 1993 | 616 | #406 | — | — |
| 1992 | 678 | #381 | — | — |
| 1991 | 705 | #365 | — | — |
| 1990 | 749 | #356 | 6 | #7,453 |
| 1989 | 692 | #371 | 6 | #7,274 |
| 1988 | 698 | #356 | 7 | #5,970 |
| 1987 | 624 | #375 | — | — |
| 1986 | 587 | #393 | — | — |
| 1985 | 597 | #382 | — | — |
| 1984 | 554 | #392 | 6 | #5,812 |
| 1983 | 576 | #386 | 5 | #6,564 |
| 1982 | 583 | #398 | — | — |
| 1981 | 641 | #365 | — | — |
| 1980 | 671 | #353 | — | — |
| 1979 | 706 | #332 | — | — |
| 1978 | 599 | #355 | 6 | #5,280 |
| 1977 | 626 | #353 | — | — |
| 1976 | 573 | #367 | — | — |
| 1975 | 553 | #376 | — | — |
| 1974 | 639 | #342 | — | — |
| 1973 | 706 | #320 | — | — |
| 1972 | 806 | #301 | 5 | #5,200 |
| 1971 | 910 | #301 | — | — |
| 1970 | 613 | #384 | 5 | #4,937 |
| 1969 | 316 | #555 | — | — |
| 1968 | 182 | #728 | — | — |
| 1967 | 115 | #948 | — | — |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1962 | 67 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,387 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,140 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,907 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,168 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,776 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).