Arica is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Arica has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Arica. That means that a girl named Arica is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Arica.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Arica. Girls named Arica have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,233 Arica ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 88 years in which the first name Arica has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2019. In general, parents name their daughters Arica only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Arica was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Arica continues to be a precious jewel: 9 newborns were named Arica that year, ranking #9,013 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Arica, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Arica are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Arica is registered in 18 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Arica live in Michigan, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 39,276 would turn around if you called the name Arica across Michigan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Arica is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Arica and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Arica, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
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Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arica
Arica
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Arica sounds like this: