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Enrika

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Enrika has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1970, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Enrika, 1980

1 in 383,000

Enrika over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enrika: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enrika means

Enrika is a given name.

The naming story behind Enrika

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Enrika in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 310.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Slov. Teu. home ruler”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Enrika, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 girls were recorded with the name Enrika between 1969 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1970; its best national rank was #5,515 in 1970.

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.

How common is Enrika?

Enrika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 383,000
9 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 184,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
265,261 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enrika 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 1980 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 265,261 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enrika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enrikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enrika was born before 1974 — so the typical Enrika is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
80.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
71
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 80.3% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Enrika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (9)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,515
1970

Spellings of Enrika

Enrika is not the most common spelling — Erica is, with 52.5% against Enrika's 0.02%.

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.

Enrika around the world

Where Enrika 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2007–2013
    #894
    in 2013
  • France
    1980–2007
    #4,682
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #2,176
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Enrika 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
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Best rank ever
#5,515
1970
Peak year
1970
9 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Enrika

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

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Sibling names for Enrika

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

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