girls:
23.3k births since 1945
#933 (84th percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1970
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
23.4k births since 1945
#1658 (79th percentile)
The name Ericka is the #1,658 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,361 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 78.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #933 (83.7% percentile) for all time with 23,315 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1970.
Ericka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1970 for boys).
The name Ericka has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ericka reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 63.2% percentile (ranked #284) with 520 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 520 births per million (ranked 63.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ericka ranks #914 for girls (3.5% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 4.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ericka reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ericka".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ericka", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Erica" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Erica..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ericka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Ericka is pronounced as EH-rih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-ree-kuh, at 12.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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