# Ericka (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ericka/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Erica, Erika |
| US babies named this | 23,466 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 46 / 23,420 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 157 | 1,441 |
| 2012 | 109 | 1,849 |
| 2013 | 87 | 2,160 |
| 2014 | 98 | 2,013 |
| 2015 | 78 | 2,363 |
| 2016 | 78 | 2,394 |
| 2017 | 61 | 2,795 |
| 2018 | 62 | 2,760 |
| 2019 | 53 | 3,058 |
| 2020 | 57 | 2,861 |
| 2021 | 41 | 3,700 |
| 2022 | 44 | 3,555 |
| 2023 | 38 | 3,932 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3,913 |
| 2025 | 66 | 2,624 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | 4,937 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,200 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,280 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,564 |
| 1984 | 6 | 5,812 |
| 1988 | 7 | 5,970 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,274 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,453 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

## People named Ericka

- Ericka Bareigts, French politician
- Ericka Lorenz, American water polo player (born 1981)
- Ericka Huggins, American activist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.