girls:
231.3k births since 1909
#171 (97th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1968
#3569 (22nd percentile)
overall:
232.3k births since 1909
#342 (96th percentile)
The name Erica is the #342 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 232,326 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 95.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #171 (97.0% percentile) for all time with 231,302 births since 1909. For boys, it ranks #3,569 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,024 births since 1968.
Erica first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for girls and 1968 for boys). Birth data for Erica is available in 103 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 35 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Erica has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Erica reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 96.3% percentile (ranked #31) with 5,403 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 5,426 births per million (ranked 95.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Erica ranks #762 for girls (19.6% percentile) with 109 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Erica reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #690) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 32 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Erica".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Erica. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.1% confident that Erica is pronounced as EH-rih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-ree-kuh, at 11.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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