Aricka
Aricka was last recorded in 2012, when 8 babies were given it; 478 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aricka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aricka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aricka is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aricka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,329, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1992, the peak
Aricka peaked in 1992, when 21 girls were given it, #4,692 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #12,329 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,027 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,002 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,080 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,541 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,005 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,519 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,248 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,332 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,180 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | #8,590 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,516 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,139 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,900 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,196 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,554 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,728 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,832 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,692 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,646 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,569 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,305 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,618 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,623 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,775 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,386 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,233 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,839 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,360 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,183 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,529 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,112 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,984 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,959 | 8.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,529 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,294 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,496 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,727 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,551 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,047 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aricka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aricka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aricka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aricka, and how old are they?
An estimated 464 Americans named Aricka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 404 people named Aricka (404 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Aricka?
Aricka is a less common spelling of Arika: SSA has recorded 478 Aricka and 2,453 Arika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,795 babies since 1880, Aricka is the fourth most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Aricka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Aricka
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 Aricka and names like it
- Compare Aricka and ArikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAricka peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Aricka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aricka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.