Given name & surname · also Indian
Sarika
“princess”
Sarika is a variant of Sarah. Sarah means “princess” in Hebrew.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sarika is a variant of Sarah. Sarah means “princess” in Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Indian and Hungarian naming traditions.
How it developed
Sarika is a variant of Sarah. The shared background comes through Sarah: In the biblical account, Sarai is renamed Sarah as part of a blessing. Later Irish and Scottish uses sometimes adopted Sarah in place of local Gaelic names, a separate practice from its Hebrew origin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Sarika is a variant of Sarah. The history of Sarah gives this family its wider story. Sarah is remembered in Genesis as Abraham’s wife and Isaac’s mother. Sarah’s later local adaptations included use for Sorcha in Ireland and Mor in Scotland, showing how an established biblical name could serve different naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Sarika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 538
- 0 boys · 538 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −53%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 10 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,435 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sarika’s family of names
Sarika has a related form in Sarah. Sarika is a form of Sarah. Sarika has a related form in Sareaka.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Sarahvariant
- Saricavariant
- Sareakavariant
- Sarycavariant
- Sariccavariant
- Sarickavariant
- Sarykavariant
- Sareekavariant
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sarika
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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