Arica — girls' name

What the Data Says About Arica

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,376 babies named Arica between 1965 and 2023, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arica currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 95 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arica performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 799 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Arica shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 147 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Arica in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arica 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 2,376 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.