Erika
Erika is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 211 births. Its best rank was 73rd, in 1989.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2110.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19904,569 births
- Best rank
- #73in 1989
- Since 1908
- 125,442people given the name
The story in the numbers
125,442 girls have been named Erika in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 4,569 births — 0.24% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 29%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Erika | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 39 | |
| 1920s | 123 | |
| 1930s | 171 | |
| 1940s | 379 | |
| 1950s | 890 | |
| 1960s | 5,322 | |
| 1970s | 24,311 | |
| 1980s | 36,853 | |
| 1990s | 35,073 | |
| 2000s | 16,720 | |
| 2010s | 4,446 | |
| 2020s | 1,110 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Erika was the 74th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Erika
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cristinapeak 1990
- Griseldapeak 1993
- Cameopeak 1992
- Aleshapeak 1990
- Danyellepeak 1992
- Shantellepeak 1987
- Kendriapeak 1992
- Karapeak 1991
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.