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Arika

#6,141 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Arika has been given to 2,453 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #6,141 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Arika, 2025

1 in 174,000

Arika 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arika: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arika means

Arika is a given name.

The naming story behind Arika

Wikidata records Arika as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61355717, 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, 2,453 girls were recorded with the name Arika between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,450 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,255 in 2020 to #6,141 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,001 in 2015 to #6,141 in 2025.

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 Arika?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,141
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arika 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 2025 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arika was born before 1994 — so the typical Arika is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,453
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (774).

Is Arika 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
−2,436
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,114
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,860
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.58×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.4%
Peak was 1991 (109)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,450
1991

Spellings of Arika

Arika is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 21.3% against Arika's 0.09%.

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 Arika is used

Across 1910–2025, Arika was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 158,950 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Minnesota1 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. Arika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arika around the world

Where Arika 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
    2007–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Arika

People whose public names include Arika, 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.

Arika in other languages

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

AriaAricaErikaArike

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

Arika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,141
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,114
Best rank ever
#1,450
1991
Peak year
1991
109 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,453
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Arika

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

AriesArianArialArinaArissaArinArisaArisAriyaArianeArielaArieAricaArizaArionnaAriahAriamArishaAriannyAriellAriyanaArizonaAriadnaArianne

Names with a curve like Arika

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

DanishaYaniraMelyssaLashayChassityAshiaKaceeJaneaRebekkaKateyJenaeAkilah

Sibling names for Arika

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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