Arpita — girls' name
96 babies named Arpita in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
53% of everyone ever named Arpita was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Arpita in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Arpita
The Social Security Administration has registered 96 babies named Arpita between 1978 and 2014, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arpita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Arpita performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 51 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Arpita shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arpita in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Arpita 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 96 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.
Arpita at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Arpita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1978
- Peak year (2005)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
96 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 12 births in a single year.
Arpita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 51 births that decade — 53% of Arpita's all-time total
Arpita decade highlights
- Peak decade 51 births
- Runner-up 18 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Arpita's strongest decade
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 53% of all-time use.
Arpita by state
Where Arpita concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 6.3% |
6 of 96 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.