Erika
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Erika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 85th most common given name. In English, recorded as A female given name from the Germanic languages or Old Norse.
- DEGermany≈1 in 612(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 652
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Erika itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #350 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 547 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121 (inferred from the name graph)
767,096 named Eric, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Erica in BR Brazil, אריקה in HU Hungary and Эрика in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Japanese version of the English name (Erica. See main dictionary. This name is usually written in kana, although it is sometimes also written with characters meaning ‘blessed prize increasing’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Erika is read(measured from records)
Erika is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Erika in Spanish.
- English29%
A female given name from the Germanic languages or Old Norse.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.1%
) Erica: weibl. Vom., weibliche
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Portuguese6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Erika in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Erika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #348 | 767,096as Eric | 1 in 434 | 766K | Erika | 547 |
| SE Sweden | #102 | 293,641as Erik | 1 in 35 | 294K | Erika | 129 |
| BR Brazil | #111 | 201,183as Erica | 1 in 1.1K | 232K | Erica | 197 |
| DE Germany | #154 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | listed | Erika | 222 |
| ID Indonesia | #403 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Erika | 159 |
| HU Hungary | — | 80,705 | 1 in 121 | 81K | אריקה | 6 |
| CO Colombia | #85 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 652 | 80 | Erika | 183 |
| FI Finland | #861 | 25,053as Erik | 1 in 222 | 47K | Эрика | 44 |
| DK Denmark | #715 | 23,634as Erik | 1 in 248 | 24K | Erika | 73 |
| NO Norway | #889 | 20,811as Erik | 1 in 263 | 74K | Erika | 51 |
767,096 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling eric. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Erika is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Japanese version of the English name (Erica. See main dictionary. This name is usually written in kana, although it is sometimes also written with characters meaning ‘blessed prize increasing’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Féminin nordique/germanique d’Éric, « puissant à jamais ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Finnish, a female given name from Old Norse, variant of Eerika or Eriika, masculine equivalent Erik, equivalent to English Erica
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, a female given name from the North Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Érik; variant form Érica
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Erika Mannb. 1905DEGerman actress and writer (1905-1969)
- E. L. Jamesb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer
- Erika Eleniakb. 1969USAmerican-Canadian actress of Estonian-Ukrainian descent (born 1969)
- Erika Alexanderb. 1969USAmerican actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur, and activist (born 1969)
- Minna Haapkyläb. 1973FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Erika Lustb. 1977SESwedish pornographic film director
- Erika Christensenb. 1982USAmerican actress
- Erika Sawajirib. 1986JPJapanese actress, singer and model
- Erika Todab. 1988JPJapanese actress (1988-)
- Erika Vikmanb. 1993FIFinnish singer and songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 105 sources across 58 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Erika come from?
- Japanese version of the English name (Erica. See main dictionary. This name is usually written in kana, although it is sometimes also written with characters meaning ‘blessed prize increasing’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Erika mean?
- In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages or Old Norse.
- Is Erika a male or female name?
- Erika is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Erika have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 767 thousand people named Eric, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Erika most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erika is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 121 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Erika?
- In the etymology graph, Erica, Ericka and Eryka are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Erika?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 80,705 people named Erika in 2025, about 1 in 121 residents.
- How common is Erika compared with other names?
- In the United States, Erika is the 348th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erikaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Erika” — the 348th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.