Erika
The girl's name Erika has been in the national records since 1908, with 126,212 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,109th. About 122,000 Erikas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 126,212
- Estimated living today
- 122,000
- Median age today
- 36
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 74th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,109th
- First recorded
- 1908
- Girls / boys
- 125,664 / 548
How old the living Erikas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 126,212 babies given the name since 1908, about 122,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 7,600 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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
Spelling variant of Erica, the feminine form of Eric, or borrowed directly from modern Scandinavia, ultimately from Old Norse Eiríkr.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Erikas
- Erika Eleniak (born 1969)American-Canadian actress of Estonian-Ukrainian descent
- Erika Mann (1905–1969)German actress and writer
- Erika Vikman (born 1993)Finnish singer and songwriter
- Erika Lust (born 1977)Swedish pornographic film director
- Erika Christensen (born 1982)American actress
- Erika Salumäe (born 1962)Estonian cyclist, sportsperson and politician
- Erika Kirpu (born 1992)Estonian fencer
- Erika Kirk (born 1988)American businesswoman and podcaster
People named Erika with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Erika is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Erika is most concentrated in California (2.0×), Nevada (1.7×), Arizona (1.6×), Texas (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Erika peaked:
Erika elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Erika | 14,606 | — |
| France girls | Erika +1 spelling | 10,480 | 145th |
| Spain girls | Erika | 7,934 | 52nd |
| England and Wales girls | Erika | 1,945 | 442nd |
| Norway girls | Erika | 1,590 | 134th |
| Sweden girls | Erika | 891 | 53rd |
| Ireland girls | Erika | 733 | 153rd |
| Belgium girls | Erika | 638 | 292nd |
| Scotland girls | Erika | 307 | 286th |
| Switzerland girls | Erika | 294 | 282nd |
| Poland girls | Erika | 283 birth registrations | 254th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Erika | 59 | 226th |
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.
Erika: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Erika | 138 | 0.011% | 253rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Erika | 131 | 0.030% | 157th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Erika | 24 | 0.037% | 84th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Erika | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
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, Erika is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Erika: rank by region
In 2024, Erika was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Erika | 341 | 8 |
In 2015, Erika was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Erika | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Erika was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Erika | 234 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Erika | 232 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Erika | 217 | 5 |
| Śląskie | Erika | 255 | 2 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Erika appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (246th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.
Erika by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 21 | 314th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Erika 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Erika | 3,279 | 9,824 |
| the Netherlands girls | Erika | 1,409 | 2,452 |
| the Netherlands boys | Erika | — | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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 Erika lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 17,611 women called Erika 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Erika | 190 | 1.095 | 184 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Erika | 554 | 1.000 | 153 |
| Teruel | Erika | 60 | 0.899 | 169 |
| Zaragoza | Erika | 456 | 0.897 | 168 |
| Guadalajara | Erika | 126 | 0.896 | 177 |
| Gipuzkoa | Erika | 331 | 0.883 | 205 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Erika 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.