Arika is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Arika in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Arika in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Arika by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Arika ranks at #4,907. That means there are 4,906 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Arika.
In fact, the name Arika hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Arika wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1991, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,380, 108 parents chose it in 1991 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Arika, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Arika was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Arika a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 3,945, for a total of 31 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Arika seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Arika 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 Arika is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Arika live in Michigan, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 62,081 would turn around if you called the name Arika 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 Arika 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 Arika 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 Arika, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Koala
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arika
Arika
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
I
K
A
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.
A
R
I
K
A
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. Arika sounds like this:
