Atha

Last seen for girls in 1970 at #7,995 · Last seen for boys in 1949 at #3,690
Given to girls 93.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1899 · 16 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,441
since 1882

Atha over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201893peak #814, 1899peak #936, 1885girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1970#7,9955—
1969#6,6176—
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1951#2,69415—
1950#3,6629—
1949#3,17611#3,6905
1948#2,49116—
1947#4,0078—
1946#2,48215—
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1943#3,8017—
1942#2,11717#3,5605
1941#2,84610—
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1939#2,20614—
1938#1,59623#3,5345
1937#1,63022#3,1756
1936#1,95016—
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1931#1,50225#3,7635
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1928#1,68024#4,1515
1927#1,38434#4,2105
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1925#1,34735#4,1975
1924#1,22742#4,3475
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1921#1,12646#2,63211
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1919#1,07546#3,7366
1918#1,00551#2,8829
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1915#1,00044#3,8255
1914#1,02334#2,4578
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Atha! It came in at #908, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1884, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Atha is popular in 1893

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Atha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1970
  • Biggest jump: 367 spots in 1895 (#1,353 → #986)
  • Biggest drop: 452 spots in 1894 (#901 → #1,353)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1899 at #814 (16 births)
  • Births halved by 1903, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1885–1888
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,564
  • Highest: 1 in 14,564 girls born in 1899 were named Atha (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 349,629 girls born in 1970 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 27.1% of all girls named Atha (391) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
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  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s45#837 (1888)#957
1890s94#814 (1899)#1,039
1900s133#903 (1902)#1,082
1910s323#1,000 (1915)#1,126
1920s391#1,078 (1922)#1,269
1930s212#1,434 (1930)#1,723
1940s119#2,109 (1940)#2,889
1950s75#2,694 (1951)#4,085
1960s44#4,437 (1960)#5,974
1970s5#7,995 (1970)#7,995

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.

Atha in 1893

girls
#901
11 births · 1 in 19,355 girls

Top girls' names in 1893

  1. #1Mary12,784
  2. #2Anna5,695
  3. #3Ruth3,658
  4. #4Margaret3,565
  5. #5Elizabeth3,360
  6. #6Helen3,249
  7. #7Florence3,231
  8. #8Ethel3,119
  9. #9Emma2,968
  10. #10Bertha2,623
  11. #901Atha11
More about 1893

girls

212,905 girls got a published name in 1893; 1 in 19,355 of them was named Atha, which outranked 45.5% of the 1,652 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Atha
  1. #865Vertie12
  2. #865Vira12
  3. #865Yetta12
  4. #901Atha11
  5. #901Aletha11
  6. #901Arminta11
  7. #901Audie11
  8. #955Abby10
  9. #955Allena10
  10. #955Ana10

Tied with 53 names at #901; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1892
Risers
  1. ↑ 737Annabell#1,450 → #713
  2. ↑ 656Helma#1,450 → #794
  3. ↑ 634Claribel#1,278 → #644
  4. ↑ 624Jemima#1,450 → #826
  5. ↑ 616Buena#1,278 → #662
Fallers
  1. ↓ 641Ernest#796 → #1,437
  2. ↓ 576Orah#861 → #1,437
  3. ↓ 576Willia#861 → #1,437
  4. ↓ 551Jennette#726 → #1,277
  5. ↓ 515Velva#762 → #1,277

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1893 →