Ericka

Where Ericka comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ericka.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Ericka through the years
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #3,676 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Ericka Bareigts born
    French politician
  3. 1971
    Peak, #299
    910 babies named Ericka, the most in any year.
  4. 1981
    Ericka Lorenz born
    American water polo player
  5. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #540.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.
Namesakes
  • Ericka Bareigts · French politician, born 1967
  • Ericka Lorenz · American water polo player, born 1981
  • Ericka Huggins. · American activist, born 1951
  • Ericka Dunlap · Miss America 2004, born 1981
  • Ericka Hart · American sex educator, model, and professor, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.