Eryka
Eryka was last recorded in 2019, when 11 babies were given it; 1,171 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Eryka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eryka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eryka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,312, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
79 babies in 1998, the peak
Eryka peaked in 1998, when 79 girls were given it, #1,927 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 11 | #9,312 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,781 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,979 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,059 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,187 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,172 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,498 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,562 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,326 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,457 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 33 | #4,514 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,883 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,400 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,092 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,526 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,971 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,427 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,501 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,666 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,311 | 36.9 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,137 | 40.0 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,927 | 44.7 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,103 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,572 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,250 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,921 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,614 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,517 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,539 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,545 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,421 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,728 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,653 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,790 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,445 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,636 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,880 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,394 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,462 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,619 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,666 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,229 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,084 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,533 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,944 | 8.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,339 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eryka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eryka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eryka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eryka, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,171 Americans ever recorded as Eryka. The median Eryka alive today is 27 years old; half are between 22 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,118 people named Eryka (1,117 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 342 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 703 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 60 |
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).
How common is the spelling Eryka?
Eryka is a less common spelling of Erica: SSA has recorded 1,171 Eryka and 232,637 Erica since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 387,192 babies since 1880, Eryka is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 446 babies recorded by SSA was a Eryka (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 Eryka
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 Eryka and names like it
- Compare Eryka and EricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEryka peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eryka since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Eryka.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Eryka alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.