Sarika — girls' name
538 babies named Sarika in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Sarika was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Sarika in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sarika
The Social Security Administration has registered 538 babies named Sarika between 1974 and 2023, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sarika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sarika performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sarika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sarika in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sarika 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 538 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.
Sarika at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sarika popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1974
- Peak year (1996)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 50 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
538 total births across 50 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 21 births in a single year.
Sarika by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 140 births that decade — 26% of Sarika's all-time total
Sarika decade highlights
- Peak decade 140 births
- Runner-up 133 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Sarika's strongest decade
140 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
Sarika by state
Where Sarika concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 1.9% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 0.9% |
10 of 538 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.9% of nationwide
- California 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.9% 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, 1974–2023 (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.