3-640: Ericka , or Éricka in France, is a girl's given name, a variant of Erica and Erika . People with the name include: Erica (name) The given name Erika is a female name with multiple meanings of Old Norse and Japanese origin. Erika and the variants Erica, Ericka, or Ereka are feminine forms of Eric , derived from the Old Norse name Eiríkr (or Eríkr in Eastern Scandinavia due to monophthongization). The first element, ei-
6-662: Is a common name in many Western societies . Erika (えりか , エリカ) is a common female Japanese given name in Japan . It has multiple meanings depending on the kanji . The Japanese origin of the given name has nothing in common with the Nordic roots of the Western version. Erica is also the name of a genus of approximately 860 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae , commonly known as "heaths" or "heathers" in English, and
9-427: Is derived either from the older Proto-Norse *aina(z) , meaning "one, alone, unique", as in the form Æinrikr explicitly, or from *aiwa(z) "long time, eternity". The second element -ríkr stems either from *ríks "king, ruler" (cf. Gothic reiks ) or from the therefrom derived *ríkijaz "kingly, powerful, rich". The name is thus usually taken to mean "sole ruler, monarch " or "eternal ruler, ever powerful". It
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