Erica
#1,396 for girls in 2025, 156 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #10,151
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 9,973 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 27 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 231,613since 1909
Erica over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,396 | 156 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,492 | 146 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,229 | 191 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,325 | 177 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,198 | 201 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,111 | 220 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,045 | 245 | — | |
| 2018 | #903 | 298 | — | |
| 2017 | #832 | 326 | — | |
| 2016 | #801 | 355 | — | |
| 2015 | #684 | 417 | — | |
| 2014 | #653 | 437 | — | |
| 2013 | #557 | 526 | — | |
| 2012 | #501 | 612 | — | |
| 2011 | #475 | 624 | — | |
| 2010 | #423 | 745 | — | |
| 2009 | #346 | 943 | — | |
| 2008 | #295 | 1,133 | — | |
| 2007 | #255 | 1,366 | — | |
| 2006 | #220 | 1,553 | — | |
| 2005 | #202 | 1,717 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #183 | 1,874 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #159 | 2,092 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #144 | 2,305 | — | |
| 2001 | #129 | 2,668 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #102 | 3,220 | — | |
| 1999 | #106 | 3,161 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #92 | 3,624 | — | |
| 1997 | #84 | 3,992 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #79 | 4,460 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #69 | 4,893 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #57 | 5,680 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #49 | 6,411 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #44 | 7,133 | #3,338 | 19 |
| 1991 | #40 | 7,800 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #36 | 8,608 | #1,702 | 47 |
| 1989 | #34 | 9,025 | #1,327 | 68 |
| 1988 | #31 | 9,591 | #1,427 | 54 |
| 1987 | #31 | 9,328 | #1,425 | 51 |
| 1986 | #31 | 9,973 | #1,255 | 59 |
| 1985 | #34 | 9,525 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #34 | 9,278 | #1,240 | 55 |
| 1983 | #33 | 9,713 | #1,253 | 54 |
| 1982 | #35 | 9,340 | #1,320 | 50 |
| 1981 | #36 | 8,626 | #1,661 | 35 |
| 1980 | #34 | 8,760 | #1,619 | 36 |
| 1979 | #32 | 8,178 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #34 | 7,340 | #1,537 | 37 |
| 1977 | #38 | 6,624 | #1,743 | 30 |
| 1976 | #54 | 5,236 | #1,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #63 | 4,581 | #1,630 | 31 |
| 1974 | #74 | 4,121 | #1,832 | 25 |
| 1973 | #81 | 3,793 | #1,817 | 24 |
| 1972 | #87 | 3,443 | #1,771 | 25 |
| 1971 | #108 | 3,490 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | #129 | 2,789 | #2,621 | 13 |
| 1969 | #208 | 1,505 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #280 | 956 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #337 | 681 | — | |
| 1966 | #381 | 575 | — | |
| 1965 | #388 | 566 | — | |
| 1964 | #418 | 541 | — | |
| 1963 | #400 | 576 | — | |
| 1962 | #455 | 448 | — | |
| 1961 | #658 | 243 | — | |
| 1960 | #663 | 234 | — | |
| 1959 | #656 | 233 | — | |
| 1958 | #686 | 206 | — | |
| 1957 | #680 | 211 | — | |
| 1956 | #711 | 182 | — | |
| 1955 | #797 | 146 | — | |
| 1954 | #787 | 142 | — | |
| 1953 | #886 | 113 | — | |
| 1952 | #973 | 94 | — | |
| 1951 | #957 | 94 | — | |
| 1950 | #809 | 116 | — | |
| 1949 | #945 | 89 | — | |
| 1948 | #876 | 99 | — | |
| 1947 | #974 | 83 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,032 | 67 | — | |
| 1945 | #941 | 66 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,364 | 35 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,949 | 20 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,278 | 39 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,947 | 17 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #2,737 | 11 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,194 | 16 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,699 | 12 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
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| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Erica! It came in at #2,208, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1909–1918, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Erica
- 96 spots since 2024 (#1,492 → #1,396)
- 285 spots since 2020 (#1,111 → #1,396)
- 712 spots since 2015 (#684 → #1,396)
- Biggest jump: 423 spots in 1945 (#1,364 → #941)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 1951 (#809 → #957)
- Debuted 1909
- Peaked 1986 at #31 (9,973 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 27 yrs · run 1972–1998
- Top 1,000: 73 yrs · run 1947–2018
- Highest: 1 in 172 girls born in 1983 were named Erica (0.58%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,303 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #31 in 1986, was only 1 in 172 (0.58%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.2% of all girls named Erica (93,159) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #2,208 (1909) | #2,208 |
| 1910s | 21 | #4,251 (1919) | #4,384 |
| 1920s | 58 | #2,194 (1928) | #3,447 |
| 1930s | 83 | #1,945 (1938) | #2,852 |
| 1940s | 521 | #876 (1948) | #1,450 |
| 1950s | 1,537 | #656 (1959) | #794 |
| 1960s | 6,325 | #208 (1969) | #419 |
| 1970s | 49,595 | #32 (1979) | #70 |
| 1980s | 93,159 | #31 (1986) | #33 |
| 1990s | 55,762 | #36 (1990) | #66 |
| 2000s | 18,871 | #102 (2000) | #204 |
| 2010s | 4,585 | #423 (2010) | #687 |
| 2020s | 1,091 | #1,111 (2020) | #1,292 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Erica in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 1,076 of them was named Erica, which outranked 98.9% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 332,884 of them was named Erica, which outranked 24.1% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #10,151Erica6
- #10,151Aadam6
- #10,151Aadhav6
- #10,151Abanoub6
- #11,472Aadesh5
- #11,472Aadin5
- #11,472Aahan5
Tied with 1,320 names at #10,151; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.