Atha
Atha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 816th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191851 births
- Best rank
- #816in 1899
- Since 1882
- 1,540people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,441 girls have been named Atha in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 51 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 51 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 99 boys have also been given it, 6.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Atha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Atha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aldapeak 1918
- Elenorapeak 1917
- Eulapeak 1919
- Elmapeak 1918
- Fairypeak 1917
- Pansypeak 1916
- Mablepeak 1922
- Ulapeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.