Arika
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 7 babies a year in England and Wales.
Arika by the numbers
In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Arika. In the US, 24 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 108 babies in 1991, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Arika
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Arika. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ariamelody, air; lioness7,160 in the US (2017)
- Anikasweet-faced or graceful499 in the US (2017)
- Ariyanoble; of noble birth124 in England and Wales (2025)
- Arinavery peaceful; form of irene17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alikatruth or truthful32 in the US (2017)
- Arisabecoming silk12 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Arika
Names that are said the same way as Arika, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Arika
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