Afrika

Last seen for girls in 2005 at #14,502

Peak · girls
1974 · 20 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
239
since 1970

Afrika over time

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Rank among girls' names. Afrika has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #3,313, 1974girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2005#14,5026
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2001#13,5216
2000#13,1546
1999#14,4115
1998#8,01611
1997#9,0179
1996#11,8076
1995#8,07910
1994#7,09712
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1992#6,65213
1991#13,1475
1990#11,4096
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1983#9,0156
1982#10,5175
1981#10,4115
1980#6,7899
1979#10,2105
1978#5,21412
1977#6,3409
1976#6,0489
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1974#3,31320
1973#4,15514
1972#3,89415
1971#5,13610
1970#7,0706
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Afrika! It came in at #7,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984–1989, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Afrika
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 1974 at #3,313 (20 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 73,377
  • Highest: 1 in 73,377 girls born in 1974 were named Afrika (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 307,974 girls born in 2005 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 46.0% of all girls named Afrika (110) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s110#3,313 (1974)#5,690
1980s25#6,789 (1980)#9,183
1990s86#6,652 (1992)#9,835
2000s18#13,154 (2000)#13,726

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Afrika in 1971

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#5,136
10 births · 1 in 166,382 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #5,136Afrika10
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 166,382 of them was named Afrika, which outranked 46.7% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Afrika
  1. #4,810Zorana11
  2. #4,810Zsazsa11
  3. #4,810Zuleika11
  4. #5,136Afrika10
  5. #5,136Alandra10
  6. #5,136Aleasha10
  7. #5,136Aleece10
  8. #5,543Adell9
  9. #5,543Adrean9
  10. #5,543Agueda9

Tied with 406 names at #5,136; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. 2,115Yesenia#2,522#407
  2. 1,431Shayla#2,267#836
  3. 853Ebony#1,681#828
  4. 749Consuela#1,706#957
  5. 510Candida#1,196#686
Fallers
  1. 572Sebrina#916#1,488
  2. 382Janene#684#1,066
  3. 375Treena#989#1,364
  4. 356Tisa#910#1,266
  5. 351Shaun#929#1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1971