Meaning not yet researched.
Arik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,379 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,379 in 1993; #3,316 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arik in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,316 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #1,379.
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Arik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,379 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 81 (2000).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Arik, making it the 3,316th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #3,274 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 36 boys named Arik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,379, reached in 1993. The most boys given the name in a single year was 81, in 2000. For comparison, it was #2,191 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arik in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 6 babies. In all, 2,613 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 642 babies named Arik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 439 US boys were named Arik; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Erik (158,126 babies since 1880), Aric (7,631 babies since 1880) and Arie (6,736 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aeryk are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Amis. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aeryk (53).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Arik in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,316 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,274 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,809 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,415 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,125 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,691 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,699 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,801 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,599 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,087 |
| 2015 | — | — | 62 | #2,191 |
| 2014 | — | — | 57 | #2,300 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,670 |
| 2012 | — | — | 57 | #2,270 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,377 |
| 2010 | — | — | 52 | #2,407 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,533 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,544 |
| 2007 | — | — | 67 | #2,052 |
| 2006 | — | — | 64 | #2,063 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,035 |
| 2004 | — | — | 64 | #1,911 |
| 2003 | — | — | 68 | #1,765 |
| 2002 | — | — | 79 | #1,557 |
| 2001 | — | — | 59 | #1,872 |
| 2000 | — | — | 81 | #1,498 |
| 1999 | — | — | 52 | #1,879 |
| 1998 | — | — | 55 | #1,812 |
| 1997 | — | — | 55 | #1,753 |
| 1996 | — | — | 64 | #1,552 |
| 1995 | — | — | 64 | #1,491 |
| 1994 | — | — | 63 | #1,497 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,379 |
| 1992 | — | — | 55 | #1,599 |
| 1991 | — | — | 45 | #1,769 |
| 1990 | — | — | 60 | #1,454 |
| 1989 | — | — | 45 | #1,706 |
| 1988 | — | — | 43 | #1,647 |
| 1987 | — | — | 27 | #2,170 |
| 1986 | — | — | 35 | #1,762 |
| 1985 | — | — | 35 | #1,725 |
| 1984 | — | — | 32 | #1,764 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,906 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,060 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,947 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,811 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,600 |
| 1978 | — | — | 32 | #1,690 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,708 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,249 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,209 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,694 |
| 1973 | — | — | 23 | #1,876 |
| 1972 | — | — | 21 | #1,975 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,056 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,063 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,692 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,383 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,000 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,336 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,555 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).