Erica
The girl's name Erica has been in the national records since 1909, with 232,637 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,396th. About 224,000 Ericas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Erica boys named Erica
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 232,637
- Estimated living today
- 224,000
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1986
- Best rank
- 31st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,396th
- First recorded
- 1909
- Girls / boys
- 231,613 / 1,024
How old the living Ericas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 232,637 babies given the name since 1909, about 224,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 7,700 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages, Old Norse
A feminine form of Eric, ultimately from Old Norse. The name has also been associated with the flower genus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ericas
- Erica Jong (born 1942)American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
- Erica Durance (born 1978)Canadian actress
- Erica Leerhsen (born 1976)American actress
- Erica Fernandes (born 1993)Indian actress
- Erica Cerra (born 1979)Canadian actress
- Erica Campbell (born 1981)former American pornographic actress, glamour model
- Erica Wiebe (born 1989)Canadian wrestler
- Erica Sullivan (born 2000)American swimmer
People named Erica with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Erica is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Erica is most concentrated in Delaware (1.4×), the District of Columbia (1.4×), New Mexico (1.4×), Alaska (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1986
The most popular girls’ names the year Erica peaked:
Erica elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Erica | 7,888 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Erica | 3,188 | 325th |
| France girls | Erica +1 spelling | 1,765 | 256th |
| Ireland girls | Erica | 1,374 | 84th |
| Norway girls | Erica | 695 | 190th |
| Scotland girls | Erica | 636 | 186th |
| Belgium girls | Erica | 206 | 570th |
| Switzerland girls | Erica | 186 | 359th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Erica | 85 | 178th |
| Poland girls | Erica | 12 birth registrations | 458th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Erica: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Erica | 63 | 0.005% | 383rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Erica | 89 | 0.020% | 192nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Erica | 34 | 0.052% | 72nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Erica is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 31 of them.
Erica: rank by region
In 2015, Erica was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Erica | 387 | 7 |
| Brussels | Erica | 253 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Erica among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Erica | 3,233 | 5,123 |
| Finland girls | Erica | 856 | 2,056 |
| the Netherlands boys | Erica | — | 22 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Erica lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 5,271 women called Erica were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valladolid | Erica | 106 | 0.391 | 295 |
| Ourense | Erica | 58 | 0.366 | 325 |
| Lleida | Erica | 72 | 0.323 | 364 |
| Tarragona | Erica | 136 | 0.311 | 374 |
| Rioja, La | Erica | 51 | 0.308 | 357 |
| León | Erica | 70 | 0.304 | 401 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Erica against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.