Meaning not yet researched.
Arika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,454 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,454 in 1991; #6,142 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,142 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,454.
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Arika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,454 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 109 (1991).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Arika, making it the 6,142nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,437 places from #3,705 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 41 girls named Arika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,454, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 109. For comparison, it was #9,006 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arika in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 2,453 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 774 babies named Arika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 255 US girls were named Arika; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Erika (126,212 babies since 1880), Aria (96,373 babies since 1880) and Arica (2,376 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aarika, Aricka and Airika 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 Hungarian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aarika (911), Aricka (478), Airika (174), Aryka (167), Airica (141), Aarica (95), Aerica (87), Aerika (80), Arrica (54), Ayrika (47), Ayrica (38), Arykah (31), and more.
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 Arika 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 | 19 | #6,142 | — | — |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,705 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,259 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,739 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,042 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,376 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,006 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,348 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,565 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,623 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,582 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,350 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1992 | 77 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,591 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,444 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,609 | — | — |
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).