Erykah

Where Erykah comes from

The dictionaries list Erykah 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
Along the way
  1. 1997
    Debut at its peak, #757
    #757 among girls with 279 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,358.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.
Namesakes

No widely known Erykah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.