Girls' name · since 1985
Arifa
Arifa has 42 recorded births since 1985 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #36,886 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,347 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 42
- born since 1985
- 2020s
- peak decade
42 babies have been named Arifa since 1985, making it today's #10347 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Arifa recorded 42 times among girls since 1985, holding rank #10347 nationally today, ahead of 40% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1985 to 2025.
- #36,886 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,347 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 42 born since 1985
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Arifa ranks #36,886 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,347 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 42 born since 1985, peaking in the 2020s.
- #36,886 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,347 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 42
- born since 1985
- 2020s
- peak decade
Arifa's 42 recorded births place it above 48.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Arifa compares
42 14th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Arifa's all-time total is 89% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Arifa | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 42 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Arifa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Arifa's full recorded timeline at 2016, 64% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 36% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1985, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Arifa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Arifa by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (22 births, 52% of the file).
2020s was Arifa's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Arifa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 22 births (52% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1985–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Arifa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.