Afrika
Afrika was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 239 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Afrika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Afrika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,535, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1974, the peak
Afrika peaked in 1974, when 20 girls were given it, #3,313 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,535 | 3.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,539 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,178 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,435 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,016 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,029 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,822 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,078 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,096 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,721 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 13 | #6,653 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,172 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,416 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,020 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,525 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,430 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,794 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,221 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,215 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,344 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,050 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,518 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,313 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,156 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,894 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,134 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,072 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Afrika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Afrika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Afrika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Afrika, and how old are they?
An estimated 229 Americans named Afrika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 31 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 246 people named Afrika (241 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above 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).
How common is the spelling Afrika?
Afrika is a less common spelling of Africa: SSA has recorded 239 Afrika and 1,042 Africa since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,281 babies since 1880, Afrika is the second most given (19% of them).
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.
More about Afrika and names like it
- Compare Afrika and AfricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAfrika peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Afrika since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Afrika.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Afrika alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.