Arik
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., Kurzform von mehreren russischen Vornamen.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 145K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 101K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
2,301 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom., Kurzform von mehreren russischen Vornamen.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arik counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,301 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Arik | 262 |
| IL Israel | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Arik | 86 |
| DE Germany | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 257K | 2 | Arik | 77 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Arik | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Arik | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 61 | Arik | 13 |
| AT Austria | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 142 | Arik | 18 |
2,301 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arik is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, adv. ‘from there’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Turkish, Çabuk davranan, çevik kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arik Lavieb. 1927ILIsraeli singer
- Ariel Sharonb. 1928ILnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006 (1928-2014)
- Arik Brauerb. 1929ATAustrian painter, graphic artist, stage designer, singer and poet (1929–2021)
- Arik Einsteinb. 1939ILIsraeli singer (1939-2013)
- Arik Lahav-Leibovitchb. 1963ILIsraeli film editor
- Arik Levyb. 1963ILartist and industrial designer (born 1963)
- Arik Marshallb. 1967USAmerican musician
- Arik Roperb. 1973USAmerican painter
- Arik Braunb. 1988DEGerman chess player
- Kjell Wätjenb. 2006DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (born 2006)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,833 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 142 | #536 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 35 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23 | #6,833 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 8 | #539 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 2 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2023 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2021 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Arik a male or female name?
- Arik is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Arik mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., Kurzform von mehreren russischen Vornamen.
- What are other forms of the name Arik?
- In the etymology graph, Ariel, Arieh and Arihel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Arik have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Arik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arik.
- How common is the name Arik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,301 people named Arik in 2020, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arikThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.