Erida or Erida is a woman of unknown origin's name and is considered a distortion or variant of the names Erika, Erica or Élida. Some consider that it is a variant of the name Eris or Éride (Greek goddess of discord, and name of a dwarf planet). It is the name of a woman named Erida Leuschner, daughter of the also astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner. There is also the surname Erida, Latino ancestry in United States.