girls:
2.4k births since 1965
#3552 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1965
#5444 (30th percentile)
The name Arica is the #5,444 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,376 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 29.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,552 (37.8% percentile) for all time with 2,376 births since 1965.
Arica first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (first recorded for girls in 1965). Birth data for Arica is available in 56 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Arica reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #703) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 53 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Arica ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arica".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Arica. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.6% confident that Arica is pronounced as A-rih-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-rih-kuh, at 23.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 R IH0 K AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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