Erike
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Erike has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1987, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% girls, 39% boys all-time.
Babies named Erike, 1987
1 in 515,000
Erike over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Erike over time
In 1987, Erike went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Erike?
Erike had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 515,000
- 7 of 3,605,072 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 248,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 356,979 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Erike sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 356,979 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Erikes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Erike was born before 1983 — so the typical Erike is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 70.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Erike 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 1987 (7)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Erike
Erike is not the most common spelling — Erin is, with 37.3% against Erike's <0.01%.
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.
Erike around the world
Where Erike 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.
- France1918–1918#814in 1918
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Erike by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Erike
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Erike
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.