Arika
Arika was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,141 among girls’ names; 2,453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Arika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arika?
#6,141 among girls’ names, 2025
Arika rose from #9,001 in 2015 to #6,141 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 11.8 per million.
109 babies in 1991, the peak
Arika peaked in 1991, when 109 girls were given it, #1,450 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,141 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,705 | 25.3 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,008 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,483 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,252 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,255 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,735 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,038 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,374 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,748 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,001 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,346 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,152 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,612 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,563 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,621 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,396 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,579 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,346 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,020 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,082 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,743 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,954 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,781 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,418 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,254 | 38.0 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,499 | 32.1 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,145 | 37.9 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,099 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,588 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,049 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,590 | 53.2 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,471 | 59.7 |
| 1992 | 77 | #1,841 | 41.8 |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,450 | 58.1 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,793 | 42.1 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,022 | 33.6 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,932 | 35.4 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,719 | 40.3 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,866 | 35.0 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,049 | 30.2 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,425 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,241 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,026 | 30.1 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,085 | 29.4 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,785 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,275 | 26.2 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,435 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,308 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,548 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,883 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,436 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,644 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,184 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,170 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,590 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,443 | 6.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,608 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arika, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,453 Americans ever recorded as Arika. The median Arika alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 2,060 people named Arika (2,054 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 336 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 708 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 307 |
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 Arika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,160 | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Arika 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 6,795 babies since 1880, Arika is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 32 babies (59%), again the most given.
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 Arika
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 Arika and names like it
- Compare Arika and AricaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArika peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arika since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Arika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Arika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.