Arik
#3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 70 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,613since 1965
Arik over time
Rank among boys' names. Arik has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,314 | 35 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #2,805 | 45 |
| 2022 | #3,412 | 34 |
| 2021 | #3,121 | 38 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 48 |
| 2016 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #2,299 | 57 |
| 2013 | #2,668 | 44 |
| 2012 | #2,270 | 57 |
| 2011 | #2,376 | 53 |
| 2010 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2009 | #2,528 | 50 |
| 2008 | #2,542 | 49 |
| 2007 | #2,051 | 67 |
| 2006 | #2,062 | 64 |
| 2005 | #2,035 | 61 |
| 2004 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #1,764 | 68 |
| 2002 | #1,557 | 79 |
| 2001 | #1,871 | 59 |
| 2000 | #1,497 | 81 |
| 1999 | #1,879 | 52 |
| 1998 | #1,811 | 55 |
| 1997 | #1,753 | 55 |
| 1996 | #1,552 | 64 |
| 1995 | #1,491 | 64 |
| 1994 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #1,598 | 55 |
| 1991 | #1,768 | 45 |
| 1990 | #1,452 | 60 |
| 1989 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #1,645 | 43 |
| 1987 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | #1,724 | 35 |
| 1984 | #1,764 | 32 |
| 1983 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #1,808 | 31 |
| 1979 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #1,688 | 32 |
| 1977 | #1,707 | 31 |
| 1976 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | #1,692 | 28 |
| 1973 | #1,871 | 23 |
| 1972 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | #2,052 | 20 |
| 1970 | #2,058 | 19 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #2,327 | 12 |
| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arik! It came in at #3,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Arik is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#856 · 1 in 13,772
- Texas#1,324 · 1 in 25,512
Best ever in a state: #304 in Wisconsin, 1989.
Show every state
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| California | #856 | 20 | 1 in 13,772 |
| Texas | #1,324 | 6 | 1 in 25,512 |
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See more about Arik
- 42 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #3,314)
- 625 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #3,314)
- 1,125 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #3,314)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1993 at #1,379 (70 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 29 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,247 boys born in 2000 were named Arik (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,379 in 1993, was only 1 in 28,019 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.6% of all boys named Arik (642) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 44 | #2,327 (1966) | #2,979 |
| 1970s | 250 | #1,598 (1979) | #1,908 |
| 1980s | 330 | #1,645 (1988) | #1,848 |
| 1990s | 583 | #1,379 (1993) | #1,618 |
| 2000s | 642 | #1,497 (2000) | #1,982 |
| 2010s | 530 | #2,086 (2016) | #2,438 |
| 2020s | 234 | #2,689 (2020) | #3,102 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Arik in 1993
Top boys' names in 1993
More about 1993
boys
1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 28,019 of them was named Arik, which outranked 86.4% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,358Mervin71
- #1,358Percy71
- #1,358Tye71
- #1,379Arik70
- #1,379Benton70
- #1,379Blayne70
- #1,379Darell70
- #1,400Ean69
- #1,400Koby69
- #1,400Kyron69
Tied with 20 names at #1,379; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.