Enrica

Girls' name

Home + ruler, through Enrico

Enrica has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1931. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1931, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Enrica, 1997

1 in 725,000

Enrica over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enrica: meaning, origin, and history

Home + ruler, through Enrico

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enrica means

Enrica belongs to the name family reached through Enrica → Enrico. Its meaning is “home + ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Enrica is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Enrico.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Enrica is pronounced /enˈri.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Enrica between 1931 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1931; its best national rank was #3,308 in 1931.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Enrica?

Enrica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997: 1 in 725,000; 5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only: 1 in 348,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 502,488 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Enrica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enrica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enricas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enrica was born before 1977 — so the typical Enrica is around 48 today.

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 61.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 118; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Enrica rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1931 (8)
Years since peak: 94; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,308; 1931

Spellings of Enrica

Enrica is not the most common spelling — Erica is, with 56.0% against Enrica's 0.03%.

Erica56.0%231,613
Erika30.4%125,664
Ericka5.7%23,420
Jerrica1.1%4,491
Eric1.0%4,293
Jerica0.95%3,914
Arica0.57%2,376
Jenica0.50%2,079

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Enrica around the world

Where Enrica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1928–1996
#3,142
in 1996
South Australia
1956–2004
#700
in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Enrica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,308; 1931
Peak year: 1931; 8 that year
First recorded: 1931
Last recorded: 1997
All-time count: 126
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Enrica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Enrika Alyrica Milica Gerica Aunica Airica Jarica Timica Temica Enrique Tarica Aarica Latica Aerica Celica Annica Essica Letica Denica Indica Demica Kamica Merica Tonica

Sibling names for Enrica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Billy Donald Ardith Roma Marvel Bobby Socorro Josefina

For a brother

Gaylord Carrol Dudley Delmar Delano Talmadge Normand Bobbie

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