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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Erika” in the USA?

Number of people named “Erika” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Erika” 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 “Erika” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Erika” by birth year

This chart shows how “Erika” 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
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 100%
1924 14 0.000005878 14 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 15 0.000006533 15 100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 30 0.000013685 30 100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 100%
1934 21 0.000010112 21 100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 100%
1938 26 0.000011751 26 100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 100%
1940 42 0.00001824 42 100%
1941 33 0.000013544 33 100%
1942 25 0.000009151 25 100%
1943 33 0.000011692 33 100%
1944 29 0.00001078 29 100%
1945 22 0.000008293 22 100%
1946 31 0.000009702 31 100%
1947 46 0.00001277 46 100%
1948 54 0.000015641 54 100%
1949 64 0.000018366 64 100%
1950 34 0.000009705 34 100%
1951 46 0.000012487 46 100%
1952 79 0.0000208 79 100%
1953 63 0.000016348 63 100%
1954 70 0.000017585 70 100%
1955 68 0.000016936 68 100%
1956 102 0.000024739 102 100%
1957 125 0.000029747 125 100%
1958 132 0.000031931 132 100%
1959 171 0.000041126 171 100%
1960 176 0.000042371 176 100%
1961 197 0.000047558 197 100%
1962 257 0.000063687 257 100%
1963 304 0.000076803 304 100%
1964 356 0.000091573 356 100%
1965 419 0.000115572 419 100%
1966 491 0.000141268 491 100%
1967 815 0.000240066 815 100%
1968 956 0.000282973 956 100%
1969 1359 0.000391043 1351 8 99%
1970 1947 0.000539856 1941 6 99%
1971 2208 0.00064329 2199 9 99%
1972 2191 0.000697106 2183 8 99%
1973 2163 0.000716964 2157 6 99%
1974 2279 0.000749671 2265 14 99%
1975 2274 0.000753131 2256 18 98%
1976 2350 0.000774478 2341 9 99%
1977 2835 0.000892493 2825 10 99%
1978 2843 0.000895752 2826 17 99%
1979 3339 0.001003607 3318 21 99%
1980 3544 0.001028885 3517 27 98%
1981 3423 0.000989485 3398 25 99%
1982 3618 0.001031368 3596 22 99%
1983 3574 0.001031952 3548 26 99%
1984 3572 0.001023861 3542 30 98%
1985 3520 0.00098624 3504 16 99%
1986 3711 0.001043272 3678 33 98%
1987 4023 0.00111576 3994 29 99%
1988 3911 0.001058445 3886 25 99%
1989 4232 0.001100808 4190 42 98%
1990 4593 0.001162056 4569 24 99%
1991 4332 0.001112119 4309 23 99%
1992 4357 0.001134259 4341 16 99%
1993 4029 0.001068621 4010 19 99%
1994 3595 0.000967008 3584 11 99%
1995 3298 0.000900563 3288 10 99%
1996 3086 0.00084613 3078 8 99%
1997 2905 0.000801214 2898 7 100%
1998 2682 0.00072916 2672 10 99%
1999 2324 0.000629151 2324 100%
2000 2745 0.000726209 2734 11 99%
2001 2230 0.000595717 2230 100%
2002 1960 0.000524304 1960 100%
2003 1818 0.000478129 1818 100%
2004 1780 0.000465856 1772 8 99%
2005 1617 0.000420563 1617 100%
2006 1431 0.000361712 1431 100%
2007 1279 0.000319935 1279 100%
2008 1017 0.000258735 1017 100%
2009 862 0.000225644 862 100%
2010 728 0.000196984 728 100%
2011 548 0.000149817 548 100%
2012 556 0.000152022 556 100%
2013 460 0.000126177 460 100%
2014 421 0.000113588 421 100%
2015 391 0.00010565 391 100%
2016 383 0.000104397 383 100%
2017 366 0.000102343 366 100%
2018 299 0.000085042 299 100%
2019 294 0.000084703 294 100%
2020 248 0.000074239 248 100%
2021 224 0.000066117 224 100%
2022 189 0.000055865 189 100%
2023 238 0.000071877 238 100%
2024 211 0.000063392 211 100%

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