Entry № 887 · Other origin

Arike Arike — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-REE-keh /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Other

Meaning

"One to be petted"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "one to be petted".

Arike is from Arìkẹ́.

One to be petted.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Arìkẹ́

Transliteration: Arìkẹ́
Pronunciation: / əˈriː.kɛ /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Arike stands.

Arike does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Arikes before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Yoruba cherishing naming

Yoruba one to be petted / cherished + family-cherishing naming + child as cherished treasure + pan-Yoruba cultural heritage

Yoruba heritage

Names connected to Arike.

Numerology

The number behind Arike.

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arike reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.