Afrika

Last seen for girls in 2005 at #14,502

Peak · girls
1974 · 20 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
239
since 1970

Afrika over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Afrika has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201973peak #3,313, 1974girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2005#14,5026
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2001#13,5216
2000#13,1546
1999#14,4115
1998#8,01611
1997#9,0179
1996#11,8076
1995#8,07910
1994#7,09712
1993#8,7199
1992#6,65213
1991#13,1475
1990#11,4096
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1983#9,0156
1982#10,5175
1981#10,4115
1980#6,7899
1979#10,2105
1978#5,21412
1977#6,3409
1976#6,0489
1975#5,51610
1974#3,31320
1973#4,15514
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1970#7,0706
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Afrika! It came in at #7,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984–1989, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Afrika is popular in 1973

No state had 5 or more girls named Afrika in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Afrika
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 1974 at #3,313 (20 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 73,377
  • Highest: 1 in 73,377 girls born in 1974 were named Afrika (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 307,974 girls born in 2005 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 46.0% of all girls named Afrika (110) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s110#3,313 (1974)#5,690
1980s25#6,789 (1980)#9,183
1990s86#6,652 (1992)#9,835
2000s18#13,154 (2000)#13,726

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.

Afrika in 1973

girls
#4,155
14 births · 1 in 104,158 girls

Top girls' names in 1973

  1. #1Jennifer62,448
  2. #2Amy26,962
  3. #3Michelle26,935
  4. #4Kimberly23,531
  5. #5Lisa22,677
  6. #6Melissa22,479
  7. #7Angela20,898
  8. #8Heather19,347
  9. #9Stephanie17,263
  10. #10Rebecca14,868
  11. #4,155Afrika14
More about 1973

girls

1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 104,158 of them was named Afrika, which outranked 57.6% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Afrika
  1. #3,971Vanda15
  2. #3,971Walida15
  3. #3,971Wynona15
  4. #4,155Afrika14
  5. #4,155Adelle14
  6. #4,155Adrena14
  7. #4,155Aimie14
  8. #4,362Adrina13
  9. #4,362Alane13
  10. #4,362Alesa13

Tied with 206 names at #4,155; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1972
Risers
  1. ↑ 4,091Cicely#4,793 → #702
  2. ↑ 2,295Aubrey#3,177 → #882
  3. ↑ 1,847Nyree#2,680 → #833
  4. ↑ 1,533Danyell#2,523 → #990
  5. ↑ 1,496Vonetta#2,311 → #815
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,814Camisha#815 → #2,629
  2. ↓ 470Andra#904 → #1,374
  3. ↓ 416Cherilyn#823 → #1,239
  4. ↓ 284Keena#848 → #1,132
  5. ↓ 281Nicolle#734 → #1,015

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1973 →