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Eryka

Girls' name

Form of Erica

Eryka has been given to 1,171 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1998, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Eryka, 2019

1 in 316,000

Eryka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eryka: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Erica

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eryka means

Eryka is a form of Erica.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eryka is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɛ.ˈrɨ.ka/ for Eryka.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Eryka → Erica → Eric. The family’s meaning is “ruler”, recorded in English with the source elements ríkr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Erica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,171 girls were recorded with the name Eryka between 1970 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,927 in 1998.

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 Eryka?

Eryka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 316,000
11 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 153,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
218,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eryka 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 2019 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 218,798 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eryka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erykas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eryka was born before 1999 — so the typical Eryka is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,171
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (445).

Is Eryka 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 1998 (79)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,927
1998

Spellings of Eryka

Eryka is not the most common spelling — Erica is, with 44.9% against Eryka's 0.23%.

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.

Where Eryka is used

Across 1910–2025, Eryka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 296,763 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eryka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eryka around the world

Where Eryka 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
    1998–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1926–2023
    #6,086
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1954–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eryka 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
#1,927
1998
Peak year
1998
79 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eryka

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

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Sibling names for Eryka

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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