Erica
About Erica
The straightforward Erica is a Norse feminization that was long associated with the complex, mega-popular character Erica Kane, played by Susan Lucci for decades on the soap opera All My Children. Used in Scandinavia since the early eighteenth century, where it was usually spelled Erika, it was in the Top 50 girls' list in the USA in the 1970s and eighties.
It is worth noting that Erica is also a flower name, in which sense it is its own name, rather than a feminisation.
The most prominent bearer of the name in recent times is novelist Erica Jong, author of the influential Fear of Flying.
Pronounced EH-rick-ah.
As of October 2026, Erica ranked #1399 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #31 in 1987, Nameberry popularity #590.
Editor's take: The name Erica is a girl's name of Italian, Scandinavian, Norse origin meaning "eternal ruler; heather".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #654 | 436 | 244.1 |
| 2015 | #686 | 417 | 233.6 |
| 2016 | #802 | 355 | 200.3 |
| 2017 | #835 | 326 | 188.8 |
| 2018 | #903 | 298 | 175.2 |
| 2019 | #1,045 | 245 | 146 |
| 2020 | #1,111 | 220 | 136.1 |
| 2021 | #1,198 | 201 | 122.5 |
| 2022 | #1,327 | 177 | 107.9 |
| 2023 | #1,229 | 191 | 119 |
| 2024 | #1,487 | 146 | 90.1 |
| 2025 | #1,399 | 156 | 97.1 |
World rankings
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Erica on lists
Famous Ericas
- Erica Jong
American author
- Erica Hubbard
American actress
- Erica Durance
Canadian actress
- Erica Louise (Baxter) Packer
Australian singer and model
- Erica Jennifer Fernandes
Indian actress
- Erica Lara Rose
American swimmer
- Erica Tremblay
Canadian actress
- Erica Campbell
American model
- Erica Monique Atkins
Campbell, American singer
- Erica Lindbeck
American voice actress
- Erica Ruth Hill
American TV journalist
- Erica Luttrell
Canadian actress
- Erica Simone Barnett
American Broadway actress
- Erica Pereira
American ballerina
- Erica Carroll
Canadian actress
- Erica Wester
artist and creator of 2013 short film "Welcome to Hell" and the comic of the same name
- Erica Andrews (born Eddie Salazar)
Mexican drag and beauty queen
Erica in pop culture
- Erica Sinclair
character in Netflix show, "Stranger Things"
- Erica Kane
character on American soap "All My Children"
- Erica Hahn
character on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"
- Erica Bing
daughter of Chandler and Monica on TV's "Friends;" twin of brother Jack
- Erica Harrington
character in the "Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls" series
- Erica Stoltz
character in movie "The Yards"
- Erica Jones
character from "My Babysitter's a Vampire"
- Erica Goldberg
character on TV's "The Goldbergs"
- Erica Reyes
character on MTV's "Teen Wolf"
- Erica
character in the "St Clare" series by Enid Blyton
- Erica Cartwright
character on TV's "Supernatural"
- Erica
genus of winter heather
- Erica "Yoga Jones" Jones
character on TV's "Orange is the New Black"
- Erica Farrell
character on the original Degrassi TV series
- Erica Fontaine
character in the Sakura Taisen series
- Erica Hartmann
character in anime "Strike Witches"
- Erica Goldberg
character in "The Goldbergs"
- Erica Strange
main character on Canadian TV series "Being Erica"
- Erica Yurken
main character in "Hating Alison Ashley" by Robin Klein
- Erica Davidson
character on Australian TV series "Prisoner"
- Erica Hale
character in book series "Spy School"