girls:
6 births since 2021
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
69 births since 2009
#4517 (1st percentile)
overall:
75 births since 2009
#7664 (1st percentile)
The name Arka is the #7,664 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,517 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 2009. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2021.
Arka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Arka is available in 10 out of the 15 years between 2009 and 2023 (9 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Arka has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arka reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #917) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arka ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 51.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arka reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arka".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Arka is pronounced as AHR-kuh, which has 2 syllables.
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