Arika
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɹikə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 85th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 35as Erik(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 434as Eric
- DEGermany≈1 in 612as Erika
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arika itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #350 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 547 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)
767,096 named Eric, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Erik
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Erika in US United States, SE Sweden, DE Germany and 4 more, Erica in BR Brazil, אריקה in HU Hungary and Эрика in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #348 | 767,096as Eric | 1 in 434 | 766K | Erika | 547 |
| SE Sweden | #102 | 293,641as Erik | 1 in 35 | 294K | Erika | 129 |
| BR Brazil | #111 | 201,183as Erica | 1 in 1.1K | 232K | Erica | 197 |
| DE Germany | #154 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | listed | Erika | 222 |
| ID Indonesia | #403 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Erika | 159 |
| HU Hungary | — | 80,705as Erika | 1 in 121 | 81K | אריקה | 6 |
| CO Colombia | #85 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 652 | 80 | Erika | 183 |
| FI Finland | #861 | 25,053as Erik | 1 in 222 | 47K | Эрика | 44 |
| DK Denmark | #715 | 23,634as Erik | 1 in 248 | 24K | Erika | 73 |
| NO Norway | #889 | 20,811as Erik | 1 in 263 | 74K | Erika | 51 |
767,096 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling eric. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the de-munich-vornamen register; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arika is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Quechua, Arica (the capital city of the Arica y Parinacota region, Chile)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Čīlē ziemeļos (Arica), Arikas un Parinakotas reģiona administratīvais centrs, 175400 iedzīvotāju (2002. g.), Peru un Bolīvijas brīvosta; naftas vads no Bolīvijas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arika Okrentb. 1901USAmerican linguist
- Arika Madeyskab. 1928PLPolish painter
- Arikab. 1973JPJapanese actress
- Arika Kaneb. 1985USAmerican singer and songwriter
- Arika Satob. 1986USAmerican television personality
- Arika Tachibanab. 1990JPJapanese idol
- Arika VirapongseUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,420 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 109 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 108 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 95 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 77 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 70 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 69 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 66 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 58 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Arika?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɹikə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Arika a male or female name?
- Arika is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Arika have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 767 thousand people named Eric, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Arika most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Arika itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 35 people named Erik.
- How common is the name Arika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 767,096 people named Eric in 2020, about 1 in 434 residents.
- How common is Arika compared with other names?
- In the United States, Arika is the 348th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arika?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arikaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arika” — the 348th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.