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Arica

Recorded 1965–2023 · United States

Arica was most popular in 1982, when 95 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,161 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,376 people named Arica.

Most popular in1982
Rank that year#2,161
Births that year95
Total since 18802,376
Given to100% girls
Alive today~2,000
Median age38

Arica over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Arica’s peak in 1982. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Arica?

Arica first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1965, which makes it about 60 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 56 of the 61 years since.

How many people are named Arica?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,376 American births named Arica between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,310 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Arica in 2025?

Arica was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Arica getting more or less popular?

Arica is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 12 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Arica a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Arica is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,376 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Arica?

Roughly 2,310 Americans named Arica are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 38 years old, and half are between 30 and 46.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Arica is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org