Entry № 3065 · English origin

Erykah Erykah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AIR-ih-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ever-ruler (Erykah Badu, queen of neo-soul)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "ever-ruler (erykah badu, queen of neo-soul)".

Five Grammy Awards total.

Subject of countless American neo-soul histories.

Ever-ruler (Erykah Badu, queen of neo-soul) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Erykah
Transliteration
Erykah
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛr.ɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Erykah stands.

Erykah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Erykahs before her.

Real people
Erykah Badu
American neo-soul artist.
born 1971
In fiction
Erykah
Various American music.

Names connected to Erykah.

The number behind Erykah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Erykah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.