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Arica

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Arica has been given to 2,376 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Arica, 2023

1 in 552,000

Arica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arica: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arica means

Arica is a given name.

The naming story behind Arica

Wikidata records Arica as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q76880450, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,376 girls were recorded with the name Arica between 1965 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,317 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Arica?

Arica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aricas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arica was born before 1988 — so the typical Arica is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,376
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (799).

Is Arica rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (95)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,317
1982

Spellings of Arica

Arica is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 16.9% against Arica's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arica is used

Across 1910–2025, Arica was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 155,648 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Arizona1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arica around the world

Where Arica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Arica

People whose public names include Arica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Arica in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Arica. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlicaArikaArícia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Arica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,317
1982
Peak year
1982
95 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,376
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Arica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Arica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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