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Erika
Rank in 2024
#1,144
Born in 2024
211
Peak year
1990 · #74
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 211 girls were named Erika, about 1 in every 7,645.
- It peaked in 1990 with 4,569 babies, ranked #74.
- It first shows up in the records in 1908.
- 125,442 girls have been named Erika since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Erika per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 2.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.9Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 119 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 403 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,375 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen X: 31,860 babies, 1.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 60,515 babies, 2.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 26,446 babies, 0.91 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,724 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Spelling variant of Erica, the feminine form of Eric, or borrowed directly from modern Scandinavia, ultimately from Old Norse Eiríkr.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages or Old Norse.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Erika, CC BY-SA 4.0.