Aarika
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 41 births
- Debut · girls
- 41 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 911since 1979
Aarika over time
Rank among girls' names. Aarika has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | — | |
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| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #3,790 | 28 |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 |
| 1991 | #2,738 | 43 |
| 1990 | #2,345 | 53 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 |
| 1988 | #2,646 | 40 |
| 1987 | #2,531 | 40 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 |
| 1979 | #2,304 | 41 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aarika! It came in at #2,304, and was given to 41 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2005, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aarika is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,852 · 1 in 25,913
Best ever in a state: #661 in Indiana, 1979.
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| Texas | #2,852 | 6 | 1 in 25,913 |
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See more about Aarika
- 1,491 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #7,885)
- 2,571 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #7,885)
- 2,232 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1979 at #2,304 (41 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,822 girls born in 1990 were named Aarika (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,304 in 1979, was only 1 in 39,153 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.7% of all girls named Aarika (271) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 41 | #2,304 (1979) | #2,304 |
| 1980s | 271 | #2,531 (1987) | #3,713 |
| 1990s | 262 | #2,345 (1990) | #5,494 |
| 2000s | 64 | #7,724 (2001) | #11,605 |
| 2010s | 163 | #5,310 (2014) | #7,725 |
| 2020s | 110 | #5,091 (2021) | #6,567 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aarika in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 65,634 of them was named Aarika, which outranked 71.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,964Zhara26
- #4,964Zuriel26
- #4,964Zuriyah26
- #5,091Aarika25
- #5,091Aara25
- #5,091Aerin25
- #5,091Aishani25
- #5,237Abigaelle24
- #5,237Abra24
- #5,237Abrar24
Tied with 145 names at #5,091; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.