Erick vs Erika
American parents have registered 126,212 Erikas since 1880, against 79,880 Ericks. But in 2025 it was Erick that was commoner, 879 babies to 213.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Erick Erika
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
Of the 127 years in which either name was published, Erick for 64 years and Erika for 63 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1883–1926 Erick ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1927–1944 Erika ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1945–1952 Erick ahead
- 1953–2001 Erika ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2002–2025 Erick ahead
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Erick | Erika | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 79,880 | 126,212 |
| Most in one year | 2,437 | 4,593 |
| Babies in 2025 | 879 | 213 |
| Estimated living today | 76,000 | 122,000 |
| Median age today | 23 | 36 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 1990 |
| Best rank | 166th boys | 74th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 366th | 1,109th |
| First recorded | 1883 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 417 / 79,463 | 125,664 / 548 |
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.
Which name is older
Half of the Erikas alive today are over 36; half the Ericks are over 23. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Erick Nevada (2.8×), California (2.7×), Arizona (2.3×)
- Erika California (2.0×), Nevada (1.7×), Arizona (1.6×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Erick | Erika |
|---|---|---|
| France | 6,910 | 10,480 |
| Italy | 367 | 14,606 |
| England and Wales | 353 | 1,945 |
| Ireland | 53 | 733 |
| Belgium | 10 | 638 |
| Switzerland | 51 | 294 |
| Scotland | 4 | 307 |
| Poland | 15 | 283 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Erick and Erika.