Aarika
Aarika was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,886 among girls’ names; 911 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aarika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aarika?
#7,886 among girls’ names, 2025
Aarika fell from #5,653 in 2015 to #7,886 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 8.1 per million.
53 babies in 1990, the peak
Aarika peaked in 1990, when 53 girls were given it, #2,340 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,886 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,392 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,483 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,225 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,088 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,310 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,716 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,247 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,778 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,859 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,653 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,254 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,614 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,246 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,509 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,610 | 5.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,785 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,184 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,529 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,379 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,135 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,478 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,059 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,672 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,785 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,580 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,728 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,732 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,340 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,980 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,641 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,529 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,778 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,169 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,526 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,430 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,417 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,516 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,304 | 25.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aarika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aarika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aarika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aarika, and how old are they?
An estimated 892 Americans named Aarika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 13 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 736 people named Aarika (736 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,795 babies since 1880, Aarika is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 32 babies (41%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aarika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aarika and names like it
- Compare Aarika and ArikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAarika peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aarika since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Aarika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aarika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.