Meaning not yet researched.
Erika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 213 in 2025. Its best rank was #73 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #73 in 1989; #1,109 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Erika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,109 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #73.
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Erika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 213 girls in 2025. Peak: #73 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 4,569 (1990).
In 2025, 213 US girls were named Erika, making it the 1,109th most common girls’ name of the year, up 34 places from #1,143 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 212 girls named Erika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #73, reached in 1989. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,569, in 1990. For comparison, it was #725 in 2015 and #1,609 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Erika in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 5 babies. In all, 126,212 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 37,127 babies named Erika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,670 US girls were named Erika; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 383. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,546 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Erika ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #558 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), Ericka (23,466 babies since 1880), Arika (2,453 babies since 1880) and Erykah (1,554 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eureka, Rika and Elika are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Slovene and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eureka (865), Rika (555), Elika (419), Eria (198), Ireka (7), Erka (6).
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 Erika in the open dataset we use.
Erika is listed as a nickname for Frederica.
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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 7 | #558 | #642 |
| Washington | 10 | #635 | #529 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #699 | #925 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #783 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #846 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #872 | #670 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #892 | #701 |
| Indiana | 6 | #952 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #953 | #813 |
| Texas | 28 | #1,013 | #812 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,030 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,048 | #838 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,075 | #744 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,077 | #545 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,107 | #508 |
| California | 23 | #1,122 | #495 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,254 | #1,101 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,535 | #856 |
| New York | 6 | #1,893 | #463 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 213 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 2023 | 239 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2021 | 224 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2020 | 248 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2019 | 295 | #903 | — | — |
| 2018 | 299 | #899 | — | — |
| 2017 | 367 | #758 | — | — |
| 2016 | 383 | #745 | — | — |
| 2015 | 391 | #725 | — | — |
| 2014 | 421 | #677 | — | — |
| 2013 | 460 | #611 | — | — |
| 2012 | 556 | #540 | — | — |
| 2011 | 548 | #529 | — | — |
| 2010 | 728 | #429 | — | — |
| 2009 | 862 | #374 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,017 | #331 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,279 | #265 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,431 | #238 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,617 | #216 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,773 | #192 | 8 | #8,372 |
| 2003 | 1,818 | #178 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,960 | #167 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,230 | #147 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,735 | #123 | 11 | #6,041 |
| 1999 | 2,325 | #137 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,672 | #124 | 10 | #5,969 |
| 1997 | 2,898 | #111 | 7 | #7,535 |
| 1996 | 3,078 | #106 | 8 | #6,694 |
| 1995 | 3,288 | #102 | 10 | #5,626 |
| 1994 | 3,584 | #90 | 11 | #5,205 |
| 1993 | 4,010 | #85 | 19 | #3,410 |
| 1992 | 4,342 | #80 | 16 | #3,804 |
| 1991 | 4,310 | #84 | 23 | #2,856 |
| 1990 | 4,569 | #74 | 24 | #2,724 |
| 1989 | 4,190 | #73 | 42 | #1,810 |
| 1988 | 3,886 | #76 | 25 | #2,393 |
| 1987 | 3,994 | #75 | 29 | #2,078 |
| 1986 | 3,678 | #74 | 33 | #1,852 |
| 1985 | 3,503 | #80 | 16 | #2,988 |
| 1984 | 3,542 | #81 | 30 | #1,855 |
| 1983 | 3,548 | #80 | 26 | #2,037 |
| 1982 | 3,596 | #81 | 22 | #2,290 |
| 1981 | 3,399 | #93 | 25 | #2,103 |
| 1980 | 3,516 | #87 | 27 | #2,018 |
| 1979 | 3,316 | #91 | 21 | #2,331 |
| 1978 | 2,827 | #104 | 17 | #2,595 |
| 1977 | 2,825 | #103 | 10 | #3,685 |
| 1976 | 2,341 | #112 | 9 | #3,810 |
| 1975 | 2,256 | #128 | 18 | #2,391 |
| 1974 | 2,265 | #127 | 14 | #2,708 |
| 1973 | 2,157 | #132 | 6 | #4,688 |
| 1972 | 2,183 | #138 | 8 | #3,740 |
| 1971 | 2,199 | #146 | 9 | #3,458 |
| 1970 | 1,941 | #171 | 6 | #4,403 |
| 1969 | 1,351 | #225 | 8 | #3,402 |
| 1968 | 956 | #281 | — | — |
| 1967 | 815 | #304 | — | — |
| 1966 | 492 | #423 | — | — |
| 1965 | 419 | #467 | — | — |
| 1964 | 356 | #519 | — | — |
| 1963 | 304 | #563 | — | — |
| 1962 | 257 | #630 | — | — |
| 1961 | 197 | #740 | — | — |
| 1960 | 176 | #768 | — | — |
| 1959 | 171 | #782 | — | — |
| 1958 | 132 | #889 | — | — |
| 1957 | 125 | #912 | — | — |
| 1956 | 102 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1955 | 68 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1954 | 70 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1952 | 79 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1949 | 64 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,465 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,213 | — | — |
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).