Atarah
#2,542 for girls in 2025, 69 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 141 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 976since 1975
Atarah over time
Rank among girls' names. Atarah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,542 | 69 |
| 2024 | #2,798 | 60 |
| 2023 | #2,852 | 59 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 |
| 2019 | #1,716 | 121 |
| 2018 | #1,540 | 141 |
| 2017 | #1,703 | 125 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
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| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Atarah! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Atarah is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#787 · 1 in 3,892
- Florida#995 · 1 in 6,078
- Georgia#1,305 · 1 in 7,710
- Texas#1,373 · 1 in 9,348
- New York#1,439 · 1 in 9,632
Best ever in a state: #732 in Oklahoma, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #787 | 6 | 1 in 3,892 |
| Florida | #995 | 14 | 1 in 6,078 |
| Georgia | #1,305 | 6 | 1 in 7,710 |
| Texas | #1,373 | 17 | 1 in 9,348 |
| New York | #1,439 | 9 | 1 in 9,632 |
| California | #2,610 | 7 | 1 in 27,068 |
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See more about Atarah
- 256 spots since 2024 (#2,798 → #2,542)
- 1,004 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #2,542)
- 2,042 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #2,542)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2018 at #1,540 (141 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,064 girls born in 2018 were named Atarah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,294 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.6% of all girls named Atarah (523) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,067 (1975) | #9,067 |
| 1980s | 22 | #9,095 (1980) | #10,247 |
| 1990s | 53 | #8,766 (1995) | #10,267 |
| 2000s | 57 | #9,379 (2009) | #13,569 |
| 2010s | 523 | #1,540 (2018) | #5,682 |
| 2020s | 316 | #2,542 (2025) | #3,148 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Atarah in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 12,064 of them was named Atarah, which outranked 91.5% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,532Kaidence142
- #1,532Kalea142
- #1,532Zia142
- #1,540Atarah141
- #1,540Asiya141
- #1,540Azeneth141
- #1,540Bryanna141
- #1,548Aleigha140
- #1,548Estefania140
- #1,548Goldie140
Tied with 7 names at #1,540; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.