first name
ERICKA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 22,932 people named Ericka, 34.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 31.1% as White and 29.3% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Ericka peaked in 1971, when 910 babies got the name.
At least 23,466 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Ericka by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #634. The largest share of babies named Ericka, 41.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Ericka is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ericka has been most common in Florida (1.9×), Arizona (1.6×), and District of Columbia (1.6×), and least common in West Virginia (0.17×).
20,487 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ericka, most common first.
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