Erica

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Erika

Related Names

See Erika

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ericuson

Female

Ericudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Erica
Genitive:	Ericas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Erica
Genitive:	Erican
Partitive:	Ericaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Erica
Accusative:	Ericu
Dative:	Ericu
Genitive:	Ericu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Erica
Genitive:	Ericas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Erica
Genitive:	Ericas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1686
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 11 December 2019

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1980-1999

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Södermanland (19th century) see map

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		4611	8266	4611	8262	0	4
Finland		n.a.	2180	n.a.	2180	0	0
Denmark		305	n.a.	305	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		5	9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		3	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		668	n.a.	668	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Erica (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.