Ericka

Where Ericka comes from

The dictionaries list Ericka as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #3,676 among girls, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.