Aarika — #6447 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Aarika

The Social Security Administration has registered 898 babies named Aarika between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aarika currently holds the #6447 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 53 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aarika performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 271 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Aarika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 71 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Aarika in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aarika in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 898 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.