Arika
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,453since 1966
Arika over time
Rank among girls' names. Arika 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 | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 |
| 2021 | #4,245 | 33 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #3,017 | 56 |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 |
| 2003 | #2,956 | 51 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #2,258 | 69 |
| 1999 | #2,501 | 57 |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 |
| 1997 | #2,102 | 67 |
| 1996 | #2,591 | 48 |
| 1995 | #2,052 | 66 |
| 1994 | #1,594 | 95 |
| 1993 | #1,471 | 108 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 77 |
| 1991 | #1,453 | 109 |
| 1990 | #1,796 | 80 |
| 1989 | #2,027 | 62 |
| 1988 | #1,934 | 63 |
| 1987 | #1,720 | 70 |
| 1986 | #1,866 | 60 |
| 1985 | #2,048 | 52 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 |
| 1982 | #2,024 | 51 |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 |
| 1980 | #1,785 | 61 |
| 1979 | #2,273 | 42 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 |
| 1977 | #2,307 | 39 |
| 1976 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 |
| 1974 | #2,433 | 31 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Arika! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Arika
- 2,421 spots since 2024 (#3,695 → #6,116)
- 1,096 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #6,116)
- 2,815 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #6,116)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1991 at #1,453 (109 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,751 girls born in 1993 were named Arika (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,453 in 1991, was only 1 in 17,202 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.6% of all girls named Arika (774) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,491 |
| 1970s | 279 | #2,273 (1979) | #2,843 |
| 1980s | 550 | #1,720 (1987) | #2,015 |
| 1990s | 774 | #1,453 (1991) | #1,955 |
| 2000s | 446 | #2,258 (2000) | #3,851 |
| 2010s | 223 | #4,601 (2012) | #5,990 |
| 2020s | 165 | #3,695 (2024) | #5,123 |
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.
Arika in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 33,093 of them was named Arika, which outranked 83.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,021Temeka53
- #2,021Tinisha53
- #2,021Torrie53
- #2,048Arika52
- #2,048Adeline52
- #2,048Annamaria52
- #2,048Asheley52
- #2,082Acacia51
- #2,082Casondra51
- #2,082Delisa51
Tied with 33 names at #2,048; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.