Arika Girl
How popular is Arika?
#6,115 girl name in 2025
19 baby girls were named Arika in the US in 2025, making it the 6115th most popular girl name.
Arika popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #6,115 for girls (▼ 2420 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 19 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+58% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #8,926 in 2015, #7,208 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1991 (109 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,449 in 1991 |
| First recorded | 1966 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Arika counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Arika family of names ranked #3,033 for girls in 2025 (#2,162 the year before), with 32 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Arika | 19 | 59% |
| Aarika | 13 | 41% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Arika is most popular
Babies named Arika per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Washington: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Ohio: 0.0 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Arika by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #4,417 |
| 1970s | 279 | #2,273 |
| 1980s | 550 | #1,719 |
| 1990s | 774 | #1,449 |
| 2000s | 446 | #2,254 |
| 2010s | 223 | #4,599 |
| 2020s | 165 | #3,695 |
Girl names about as popular as Arika
Questions
- Is Arika a boy or girl name?
- Arika is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Arika were girls.
- How popular is the name Arika?
- 19 baby girls were named Arika in the US in 2025, making it the 6115th most popular girl name.
- When was Arika most popular?
- Arika peaked in 1991, when 109 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,449 in 1991.
- How many people are named Arika?
- 2,453 babies have been named Arika in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,403 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 32.
- Where is Arika most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Arika was most common in Washington, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.