Girls' name · peaked in 1971

Ericka name popularity since 1925

23,466 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Ericka. Half of them were born in 1986 or earlier, so the typical Ericka is about 40 years old in 2026. Ericka peaked in 1971 as the #301 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 23,466; Named Ericka, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1971; #301 for girls that year
Typical age: About 40; Median birth year 1986
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,624 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 23,420 girls · 46 boys
Most popular in: Florida; 1.82× its national share

Peak year is the year Ericka made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Ericka births per year, 1925–2025

1971 was the biggest year for Ericka both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1967 and 1972, Ericka became 7.6× more common, from 1 in 14,400 baby girls to 1 in 1,890.
Steepest fall: Between 2007 and 2012, its share of baby girls fell by 45%, from 1 in 8,860 to 1 in 16,200.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Ericka's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Ericka.

Decade by decade

Babies named Ericka in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	0	0	–
1930s	0	0	Under 5
1940s	41	0	#3,776
1950s	155	0	#5,387
1960s	995	0	#1,642
1970s	6,731	16	#376
1980s	6,223	24	#382
1990s	5,432	6	#501
2000s	2,632	0	#1,080
2010s	927	0	#2,363
2020–25	284	0	#2,624

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000. "Under 5" means fewer than 5 girls got the name.

Generation fingerprint

41.7% of babies named Ericka from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Where Ericka is most popular

The index compares Ericka's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Ericka.

State	Index	Babies
Florida	1.82×	1,359
Arizona	1.51×	407
Illinois	1.48×	1,495
California	1.42×	3,124
Maryland	1.35×	427

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Ericka's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Ericka.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Ericka (1971).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data