Arik
Arik was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,315 among boys’ names; 2,613 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,530 Americans named Arik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arik mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arik is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Transcription of a modern Hebrew diminutive of the Hebrew equivalent of Ariel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arik?
#3,315 among boys’ names, 2025
Arik fell from #2,191 in 2015 to #3,315 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 32.3 to 20.5 per million.
81 babies in 2000, the peak
Arik peaked in 2000, when 81 boys were given it, #1,494 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,315 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,272 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,808 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,413 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,124 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,690 | 26.7 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,698 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,800 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,598 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,087 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,191 | 32.3 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,298 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,668 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,269 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,376 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,406 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,532 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 49 | #2,543 | 24.0 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,052 | 32.3 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,062 | 31.1 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,031 | 30.5 |
| 2004 | 64 | #1,907 | 32.2 |
| 2003 | 68 | #1,762 | 34.4 |
| 2002 | 79 | #1,554 | 40.7 |
| 2001 | 59 | #1,868 | 30.4 |
| 2000 | 81 | #1,494 | 41.2 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,876 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,809 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,750 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,549 | 33.8 |
| 1995 | 64 | #1,486 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,492 | 32.6 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,374 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,594 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,763 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 60 | #1,449 | 29.2 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,701 | 22.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,642 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,166 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,760 | 19.0 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,724 | 18.9 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,763 | 17.7 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,905 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,059 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,946 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,811 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 36 | #1,600 | 20.9 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,690 | 19.5 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,708 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,248 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,208 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,694 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,875 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,975 | 13.0 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,055 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,062 | 10.2 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,691 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,382 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #2,999 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,335 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,554 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arik, and how old are they?
2,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,613 Americans ever recorded as Arik. The median Arik alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,301 people named Arik (23 women and girls, 2,278 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 291 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 687 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 597 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Arik born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,597 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arik with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,746 babies since 1880, Arik is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 81 babies (43%), the most given that year.
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 Arik
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 Arik and names like it
- Compare Arik and AricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArik peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arik since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Arik: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Arik.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arik alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.