How popular is “Erykah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Erykah” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Erykah” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1997	279	0.00007695	279	100%
1998	276	0.000075037	276	100%
1999	130	0.000035193	130	100%
2000	106	0.000028043	106	100%
2001	90	0.000024042	90	100%
2002	54	0.000014445	54	100%
2003	81	0.000021303	81	100%
2004	41	0.00001073	41	100%
2005	31	0.000008063	31	100%
2006	30	0.000007583	30	100%
2007	32	0.000008005	32	100%
2008	41	0.000010431	41	100%
2009	32	0.000008377	32	100%
2010	35	0.00000947	35	100%
2011	31	0.000008475	31	100%
2012	28	0.000007656	28	100%
2013	20	0.000005486	20	100%
2014	20	0.000005396	20	100%
2015	17	0.000004593	17	100%
2016	22	0.000005997	22	100%
2017	25	0.000006991	25	100%
2018	27	0.000007679	27	100%
2019	22	0.000006338	22	100%
2020	10	0.000002993	10	100%
2021	20	0.000005903	20	100%
2022	23	0.000006798	23	100%
2023	8	0.000002416	8	100%
2024	17	0.000005107	17	100%

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