Ericka
Ericka was given to 66 girls in 2025, #2,624 among girls’ names; 23,466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,500 Americans named Ericka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ericka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ericka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ericka is “a female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ericka?
#2,624 among girls’ names, 2025
Ericka fell from #2,363 in 2015 to #2,624 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 41.1 per million.
910 babies in 1971, the peak
Ericka peaked in 1971, when 910 girls were given it, #301 among girls’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,624 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,913 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,930 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,553 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,699 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,861 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,058 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,759 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,795 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,394 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,363 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,013 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,160 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,849 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 157 | #1,441 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,550 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,320 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 192 | #1,296 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 217 | #1,174 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 262 | #993 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 220 | #1,080 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 244 | #977 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 313 | #788 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 283 | #825 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 326 | #735 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 392 | #637 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 371 | #636 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 452 | #549 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 403 | #576 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 432 | #540 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 490 | #501 | 0.28 |
| 1994 | 536 | #472 | 0.30 |
| 1993 | 616 | #406 | 0.34 |
| 1992 | 678 | #381 | 0.37 |
| 1991 | 705 | #365 | 0.38 |
| 1990 | 749 | #356 | 0.39 |
| 1989 | 692 | #371 | 0.38 |
| 1988 | 698 | #356 | 0.39 |
| 1987 | 624 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 1986 | 587 | #393 | 0.34 |
| 1985 | 597 | #382 | 0.35 |
| 1984 | 554 | #392 | 0.33 |
| 1983 | 576 | #386 | 0.34 |
| 1982 | 583 | #398 | 0.34 |
| 1981 | 641 | #365 | 0.38 |
| 1980 | 671 | #353 | 0.40 |
| 1979 | 706 | #332 | 0.44 |
| 1978 | 599 | #355 | 0.39 |
| 1977 | 626 | #353 | 0.41 |
| 1976 | 573 | #367 | 0.39 |
| 1975 | 553 | #376 | 0.38 |
| 1974 | 639 | #342 | 0.44 |
| 1973 | 706 | #320 | 0.48 |
| 1972 | 806 | #301 | 0.53 |
| 1971 | 910 | #301 | 0.55 |
| 1970 | 613 | #384 | 0.35 |
| 1969 | 316 | #555 | 0.19 |
| 1968 | 182 | #728 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 115 | #948 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,185 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,642 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,340 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 67 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,894 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,385 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,326 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,905 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,802 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,774 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ericka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ericka has been given almost only to girls: 46 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ericka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ericka, and how old are they?
22,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 23,466 Americans ever recorded as Ericka. The median Ericka alive today is 40 years old; half are between 31 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 22,932 people named Ericka (22,879 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 365 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,640 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 796 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ericka born?
The states with the most babies named Ericka are California, Texas and Illinois, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,124 | #2,154 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 2,000 | #1,950 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 1,495 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 1,379 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 1,359 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 1,029 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,026 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 796 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 603 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 534 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Ericka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ericka is most over-represented in Florida: since 1945 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ericka with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 385,864 babies since 1880, Ericka is the third most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 435 babies (15%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ericka
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ericka and names like it
- Compare Ericka and EricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sEricka peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ericka since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Ericka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ericka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.