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As an Erica who is nothing like the image you described, this is the first I've heard of Erica being a "preppy white girl" name! ("Rich," maybe, though that would mainly be due to the association with the "All My Children" character Erica Kane, who I was sort of named after. But "preppy" is a new one for me, lol!)

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Maybe we just grew up in vastly different neighborhoods (there certainly weren't any houses around me being sold for more than 300K), but none of the Ericas / Erikas I new in school, or encountered as a child, were even white. A couple were black, but most were Hispanic. (I met my first white Erika in college, and a white Arica some years later.) As for me, I'm a short, dark-haired, pear-shaped Italian-American, and I've always been far more nerdy than "preppy" or "yuppie" (though I did go to a private liberal arts college in New England...).

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Heather is the name that conjures images of blond women, for me, but that's mainly due to me associating the name with the actresses Heather Locklear and Heather Graham.

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