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Erica vs Erienne

American parents have registered 232,637 Ericas since 1880, against 133 Eriennes. Erica is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Erica against Erienne, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Erica Erienne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Erica has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1909 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Erica had 9,767 and Erienne had 29.

Side by side

  Erica Erienne
Total US births 232,637133
Most in one year 10,03229
Babies in 2025 156under 5
Estimated living today 224,000130
Median age today 3939
Peak year 19861983
Best rank 31st girls2,910th girls
Rank in 2025 1,396thunranked
First recorded 19091983
Girls / boys 231,613 / 1,024133 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Erica and Erienne.