Erica
Erica is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 146 births. Its best rank was 31st, in 1986–1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1460.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19869,972 births
- Best rank
- #31first in 1986
- Since 1909
- 232,485people given the name
The story in the numbers
231,461 girls have been named Erica in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 9,972 births — 0.58% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 146 births in 2024, against 9,972 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 40%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,024 boys have also been given it, 0.44% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Erica | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 21 | |
| 1920s | 58 | |
| 1930s | 83 | |
| 1940s | 521 | |
| 1950s | 1,537 | |
| 1960s | 6,325 | |
| 1970s | 49,597 | |
| 1980s | 93,161 | |
| 1990s | 55,763 | |
| 2000s | 18,871 | |
| 2010s | 4,584 | |
| 2020s | 935 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Erica was the 31st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Erica
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Casipeak 1989
- Talishapeak 1989
- Natashapeak 1987
- Casiepeak 1983
- Tericapeak 1984
- Tiffaniepeak 1980
- Alishiapeak 1990
- Rachalpeak 1986
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.