Erikka
Erikka was last recorded in 2010, when 10 babies were given it; 981 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erikka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Erikka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,659, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1990, the peak
Erikka peaked in 1990, when 50 girls were given it, #2,437 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | #10,659 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,172 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,015 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,497 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,739 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,624 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,317 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,722 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,352 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,020 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 17 | #5,997 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,687 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,739 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,344 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,004 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,150 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,059 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,786 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,668 | 24.0 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,437 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,117 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,300 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,676 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,076 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,670 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,006 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,683 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,560 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,091 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,348 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,944 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,418 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,853 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,699 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,080 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,238 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,432 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,991 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,988 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,963 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,028 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,813 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,092 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Erikka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erikka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erikka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erikka, and how old are they?
An estimated 948 Americans named Erikka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 870 people named Erikka (869 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 957 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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 Erikka?
Erikka is a less common spelling of Erica: SSA has recorded 981 Erikka and 232,637 Erica since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 385,802 babies since 1880, Erikka is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 435 babies recorded by SSA was a Erikka (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 Erikka
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 Erikka and names like it
- Compare Erikka and EricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sErikka peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erikka since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Erikka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Erikka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with EMost given first.