How popular is “Erica” in the USA?

Number of people named “Erica” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Erica” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Erica” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Erica” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Erica” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Erica” by birth year

This chart shows how “Erica” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1909	5	0.00000978	5		100%
1915	5	0.000002729	5		100%
1916	5	0.000002585	5		100%
1917	5	0.000002492	5		100%
1919	6	0.000002843	6		100%
1924	5	0.000002099	5		100%
1925	6	0.000002571	6		100%
1926	8	0.000003484	8		100%
1927	12	0.000005174	12		100%
1928	16	0.000007077	16		100%
1929	11	0.000005018	11		100%
1931	10	0.000004752	10		100%
1932	8	0.000003789	8		100%
1933	8	0.000004001	8		100%
1934	9	0.000004334	9		100%
1935	7	0.000003349	7		100%
1937	7	0.000003285	7		100%
1938	17	0.000007683	17		100%
1939	17	0.000007715	17		100%
1940	13	0.000005646	13		100%
1941	10	0.000004104	10		100%
1942	39	0.000014276	39		100%
1943	20	0.000007086	20		100%
1944	35	0.000013011	35		100%
1945	66	0.000024878	66		100%
1946	67	0.000020968	67		100%
1947	83	0.000023041	83		100%
1948	99	0.000028675	99		100%
1949	89	0.00002554	89		100%
1950	116	0.000033111	116		100%
1951	94	0.000025518	94		100%
1952	94	0.00002475	94		100%
1953	113	0.000029323	113		100%
1954	142	0.000035672	142		100%
1955	146	0.000036363	146		100%
1956	182	0.000044142	182		100%
1957	211	0.000050212	211		100%
1958	206	0.000049832	206		100%
1959	233	0.000056037	233		100%
1960	234	0.000056334	234		100%
1961	243	0.000058663	243		100%
1962	448	0.000111018	448		100%
1963	576	0.000145521	576		100%
1964	541	0.00013916	541		100%
1965	566	0.000156119	566		100%
1966	575	0.000165436	575		100%
1967	681	0.000200595	681		100%
1968	961	0.000284453	956	5	99%
1969	1514	0.000435643	1505	9	99%
1970	2802	0.000776928	2789	13	99%
1971	3511	0.001022913	3490	21	99%
1972	3468	0.001103407	3443	25	99%
1973	3818	0.001265543	3794	24	99%
1974	4146	0.001363816	4121	25	99%
1975	4613	0.00152779	4582	31	99%
1976	5261	0.001733843	5236	25	99%
1977	6653	0.002094448	6623	30	99%
1978	7378	0.002324607	7341	37	99%
1979	8216	0.002469492	8178	38	99%
1980	8797	0.002553922	8761	36	99%
1981	8659	0.002503053	8624	35	99%
1982	9393	0.002677623	9343	50	99%
1983	9767	0.002820111	9713	54	99%
1984	9334	0.002675453	9279	55	99%
1985	9586	0.002685824	9525	61	99%
1986	10031	0.002820011	9972	59	99%
1987	9379	0.002601221	9328	51	99%
1988	9645	0.002610254	9591	54	99%
1989	9093	0.00236523	9025	68	99%
1990	8655	0.002189765	8608	47	99%
1991	7840	0.0020127	7800	40	99%
1992	7152	0.001861883	7133	19	99%
1993	6426	0.001704383	6412	14	100%
1994	5700	0.001533225	5680	20	99%
1995	4913	0.00134156	4893	20	99%
1996	4473	0.001226422	4460	13	99%
1997	3998	0.001102669	3992	6	100%
1998	3624	0.000985263	3624		100%
1999	3170	0.000858179	3161	9	99%
2000	3220	0.000851873	3220		100%
2001	2676	0.00071486	2668	8	99%
2002	2305	0.000616592	2305		100%
2003	2097	0.000551506	2092	5	100%
2004	1885	0.000493336	1874	11	99%
2005	1723	0.000448132	1717	6	99%
2006	1553	0.000392549	1553		100%
2007	1366	0.000341698	1366		100%
2008	1133	0.000288246	1133		100%
2009	943	0.000246847	943		100%
2010	745	0.000201584	745		100%
2011	624	0.000170595	624		100%
2012	612	0.000167333	612		100%
2013	526	0.000144281	526		100%
2014	436	0.000117635	436		100%
2015	417	0.000112675	417		100%
2016	355	0.000096765	355		100%
2017	326	0.000091158	326		100%
2018	298	0.000084758	298		100%
2019	245	0.000070586	245		100%
2020	220	0.000065857	220		100%
2021	201	0.000059328	201		100%
2022	177	0.000052318	177		100%
2023	191	0.000057683	191		100%
2024	146	0.000043864	146		100%

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