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, South America. 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 Alexander, an American actress
• Erika von Brockdorff (1911–1943), a German resistance fighter during the Second World War
• Erika Christensen, an American actress
• Erika Coimbra (born 1980), a Brazilian volleyball player
• 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 González (born 1972), a Mexican freestyle swimmer
• Erika Hansen (born 1970), an American swimmer
• Erika Jayne, a dance/electronica artist
• Erika Pluhar (born 1939), an Austrian actress, singer and author
• Erika Landin, actress and Big Brother contestant
• Erika Mann, a German writer, the daughter of Thomas Mann
• Erika Mann, German politician
• Erika Namba, a murder victim killed by Tsutomu Miyazaki
• Erica Jong, an American author
• Erika Olivera, a Chilean marathon runner
• Erica Rose (born 1982), an American long-distance swimmer
• Erika Rudolf (born 1954), a Hungarian high jumper
• 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
• Erica Burgard, an American Prostitute who runs a pokémon gym

Fictional characters

• Erika Kohut, the main character in the novel The Piano Teacher of the Austrian nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek
• Hayasaka Erika, a major character in the webcomic Megatokyo.
• Erica Kane, a long-running character on the American soap opera All My Children.
• Erica Hartmann, a character from the Strike Witches anime.

See also

• Erica (disambiguation)