Erika (given name)

Erika

The name Erika is Old Norse for "ever powerful" or "ruler of the people." It is also frequently spelled Erica. Its masculine forms are Erik, Eric and Derek. It is a common name in many European countries, and in Australia, North America, and Japan. Erika is also the name of a yellow German flower. It is also a given name in Japan.

People

• Erika Alcocer, Mexican singer, winner of the second generation of La Academia
• Erika Berger (born 1939), an Austrian television presenter
• Erika de Bonis, an Italian eurodance singer with the stage name "erika"
• Erika von Brockdorff (1911–1943), a German resistance fighter during the Second World War
• Erika Christensen, an American actress
• Erika Cremer (1900–1996), a German physicist
• Erika Eleniak (born 1969), an American actress and Playboy Playmate
• Erika Fuchs (1906–2005), a German translator
• Erika Pluhar (born 1939), an Austrian actress, singer and author
• Erika Landin, actress and Big Brother contestant
• Erika Namba, a murder victim killed by Tsutomu Miyazaki
• Erica Jong, an American author
• Erika Olivera, a Chilean marathon runner
• Erica Sakurazawa, a Japanese manga author
• Erika Sawajiri, a Japanese gravure model, singer and actress
• Erika Toda, a Japanese actress
• Erika Umeda, a Japanese singer

Fictional characters

• Erika Kohut, the main character in the novel The Piano Teacher of the austrian nobel price winner Elfriede Jelinek

See also

• Erica (disambiguation)