does anybody know the meaning of that name "ERICA"?

Answer 1

Origin :Latin
Meaning :Honorable ruler.
Gender :Female

Answer 2

Honorable Ruler

Answer 3

Sorry folks, those "babyname" sources are full of sloppy scholarship, hence notoriously unreliable.

Erica is the feminine form of the name "Eric", a name the English took from Danish invaders, and which goes back to Old NORSE (not Latin!!) Eiríkr

The Old Norse name apparently means either "ever ruler" [that is, 'enduring', probably stressing being the rightful king, maintaining his throne against all others' attempts] or "only ruler" OR "fortunate ruler"

ríkr ="ruler" (but also related to "rich")

The first part is more uncertain, but I can find NO evidence of it meaning "honorable"

ei ="ever, always" (related to English "aye" and Germa "ewig")
OR from "aen", meaning alone, lone (related to "a(n), ane, one" in English...)

OR it may from a word meaning "happiness, luck" or even "island" (?!) -- see details below


The name Eric/Erik was held by many Scandinvian rulers (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian), as well as by "Erik the Red"

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=eric
http://www.aboutnames.ch/HME.htm#gnErich
(two very good sources for name meanings)



Details the Old Norse roots (on a great page about Old Norse men's names):

"-ríkr also exists as the weakened form -rekr and derives from the OW.Norse adjective ríkr, which in turn is from Germanic *rikiaR "mighty, distinguished, rich". When occurring as the second element in a compound name, -ríkR also is understood as partly derived from the noun *rík(a)z "ruler, sovereign" an early Germanic loan-word from Celtic rix (compare with Gothic reiks and Latin rex, "king")."

Ey- (or before a vowel, Eyj-) is from Primitive Scandinavian *awió "island" or auja "happiness, luck, (luck) giver," or perhaps from the adverb *aiwa "always".

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml

Answer 4

honerable ruler

Answer 5

honorable ruler

http://www.babynames.com/Names/Alpha/?let=E