Ericka
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #7,178
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1971 · 910 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 23,420since 1945
Ericka over time
Rank among girls' names. Ericka has never cracked the top 200 here.
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 | #2,607 | 66 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,911 | 38 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,744 | 62 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,385 | 78 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,351 | 78 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,152 | 87 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,846 | 109 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,440 | 157 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,546 | 144 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,317 | 183 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,295 | 192 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,172 | 217 | — | |
| 2006 | #993 | 262 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,078 | 220 | — | |
| 2004 | #974 | 244 | — | |
| 2003 | #788 | 313 | — | |
| 2002 | #823 | 283 | — | |
| 2001 | #735 | 326 | — | |
| 2000 | #637 | 392 | — | |
| 1999 | #636 | 371 | — | |
| 1998 | #549 | 452 | — | |
| 1997 | #575 | 403 | — | |
| 1996 | #540 | 432 | — | |
| 1995 | #501 | 490 | — | |
| 1994 | #472 | 536 | — | |
| 1993 | #406 | 616 | — | |
| 1992 | #381 | 678 | — | |
| 1991 | #365 | 705 | — | |
| 1990 | #356 | 749 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #371 | 692 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #356 | 698 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #374 | 624 | — | |
| 1986 | #393 | 587 | — | |
| 1985 | #382 | 597 | — | |
| 1984 | #392 | 554 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #386 | 576 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #398 | 583 | — | |
| 1981 | #365 | 641 | — | |
| 1980 | #353 | 671 | — | |
| 1979 | #332 | 706 | — | |
| 1978 | #355 | 599 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #353 | 626 | — | |
| 1976 | #367 | 573 | — | |
| 1975 | #376 | 553 | — | |
| 1974 | #342 | 639 | — | |
| 1973 | #320 | 706 | — | |
| 1972 | #300 | 806 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #299 | 910 | — | |
| 1970 | #384 | 613 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #555 | 316 | — | |
| 1968 | #727 | 182 | — | |
| 1967 | #948 | 115 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,178 | 82 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,635 | 47 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,383 | 66 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,340 | 68 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,350 | 67 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,150 | 29 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,881 | 35 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,025 | 30 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ericka! It came in at #3,676, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1946, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ericka
- 1,285 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #2,607)
- 243 spots since 2020 (#2,850 → #2,607)
- 256 spots since 2015 (#2,351 → #2,607)
- Biggest jump: 230 spots in 1967 (#1,178 → #948)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 2004 (#788 → #974)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1971 at #299 (910 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1967–2004
- Highest: 1 in 1,828 girls born in 1971 were named Ericka (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.7% of all girls named Ericka (6,731) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 41 | #3,350 (1948) | #3,817 |
| 1950s | 155 | #1,881 (1959) | #3,359 |
| 1960s | 995 | #555 (1969) | #1,381 |
| 1970s | 6,731 | #299 (1971) | #343 |
| 1980s | 6,223 | #353 (1980) | #377 |
| 1990s | 5,432 | #356 (1990) | #478 |
| 2000s | 2,632 | #637 (2000) | #981 |
| 2010s | 927 | #1,440 (2011) | #2,230 |
| 2020s | 284 | #2,607 (2025) | #3,412 |
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.
Ericka in 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 2,852 of them was named Ericka, which outranked 95.9% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 371,646 of them was named Ericka, which outranked 13.0% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 709 names at #4,724; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.