Erikah
Erikah was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 306 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erikah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erikah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,167, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1998, the peak
Erikah peaked in 1998, when 30 girls were given it, #3,860 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,167 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,377 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,581 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,422 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,567 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,854 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,663 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,082 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,388 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,442 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 18 | #6,573 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,140 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,802 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,148 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,019 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,484 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,860 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,706 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,029 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,123 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,915 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,258 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,806 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,536 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,629 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,066 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,482 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Erikah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erikah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erikah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erikah, and how old are they?
An estimated 302 Americans named Erikah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Erikah (281 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Erikah?
Erikah is a less common spelling of Erica: SSA has recorded 306 Erikah and 232,637 Erica since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 386,530 babies since 1880, Erikah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 441 babies recorded by SSA was a Erikah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Erikah
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 Erikah and names like it
- Compare Erikah and EricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sErikah peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erikah since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Erikah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Erikah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.