Erykah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 24 babies a year in the US.
Erykah by the numbers
Erykah was given to 24 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 279 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Erykah
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 Erykah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Erykah
Names that are said the same way as Erykah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Erykah
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