Erykah
Erykah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,729 among girls’ names; 1,554 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Erykah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Erykah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Erykah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Erykah 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 Erykah?
#13,729 among girls’ names, 2025
Erykah fell from #7,073 in 2015 to #13,729 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 3.7 per million.
279 babies in 1997, the peak
Erykah peaked in 1997, when 279 girls were given it, #757 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,728 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,513 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,515 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,016 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,775 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,667 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,921 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,224 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,849 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,073 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,276 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,322 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,007 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,599 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,225 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,604 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,885 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,600 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,716 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,401 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,576 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,148 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,791 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,921 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,661 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 130 | #1,359 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 276 | #780 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 279 | #757 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Erykah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Erykah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Erykah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Erykah, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,554 Americans ever recorded as Erykah. The median Erykah alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,209 people named Erykah (1,209 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,459 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 236 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 362,328 babies since 1880, Erykah is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 375 babies (1.6%), 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 Erykah
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 Erykah and names like it
- Compare Erykah and EricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sErykah peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Erykah since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Erykah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Erykah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.