Eryka
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Eryka by the numbers
Eryka was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 79 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Eryka
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Eryka. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Erikaeternal ruler; feminine form of Erik365 in the US (2017)
- Erykah24 in the US (2017)
- Ericaeternal ruler; a form of Eric67 in England and Wales (2025)
- Erickaeternal ruler; feminine form of eric59 in the US (2017)
- Elyzagod is my oath; a form of eliza12 in England and Wales (2025)
- Erynnireland; a modern respelling of Erin42 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Eryka
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