Erika (given name)

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name = Erika


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footnotes = 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 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 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 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 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
*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 prize winner Elfriede Jelinek
*Hayasaka Erika, a major character in the webcomic Megatokyo.

ee also

*Erica (disambiguation)

Erika Martinez.