Athan

#2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births

Peak · boys
2012 · 123 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,173
since 1917

Athan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Athan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201917peak #1,367, 2012boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,67648
2024#2,31361
2023#2,04773
2022#2,26963
2021#2,25362
2020#2,29259
2019#2,11068
2018#2,21062
2017#1,80983
2016#1,72490
2015#1,71790
2014#1,564101
2013#1,528105
2012#1,367123
2011#1,484109
2010#1,543104
2009#1,562104
2008#1,63395
2007#1,86177
2006#1,69883
2005#2,18255
2004#2,41946
2003#2,57939
2002#2,88232
2001#3,14328
2000#2,47638
1999#3,70420
1998#6,8438
1997#4,66813
1996#6,4968
1995#5,9289
1994#7,7706
1993#8,7005
1992#7,4226
1991—
1990#8,1175
1989#4,52711
1988#6,4266
1987#3,73112
1986#3,88211
1985#3,40113
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1983#4,4998
1982#4,2349
1981#3,41212
1980#3,83810
1979#6,0565
1978#5,7725
1977#4,1648
1976#4,9356
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1974#4,1907
1973#3,6948
1972#3,6228
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1967#3,2317
1966#3,9485
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1962#3,6406
1961#3,6526
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five boys were named Athan! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1923, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Athan is popular in 1917

No state had 5 or more boys named Athan in 1917, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Athan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 363 spots since 2024 (#2,313 → #2,676)
  • 384 spots since 2020 (#2,292 → #2,676)
  • 959 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #2,676)
Rise & fade · boys
95 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 2012 at #1,367 (123 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 15,422
  • Highest: 1 in 15,422 boys born in 2012 were named Athan (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 35,585 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 43.0% of all boys named Athan (935) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s5#3,981 (1917)#3,981
1920s6#3,867 (1924)#3,867
1930s0——
1940s11#3,173 (1946)#3,421
1950s10#3,988 (1959)#3,991
1960s24#3,231 (1967)#3,618
1970s47#3,622 (1972)#4,633
1980s92#3,401 (1985)#4,217
1990s80#3,704 (1999)#6,628
2000s597#1,562 (2009)#2,244
2010s935#1,367 (2012)#1,706
2020s366#2,047 (2023)#2,308

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Athan in 1917

boys
#3,981
5 births · 1 in 185,096 boys

Top boys' names in 1917

  1. #1John51,852
  2. #2William42,422
  3. #3James37,337
  4. #4Robert35,220
  5. #5Joseph24,761
  6. #6George24,196
  7. #7Charles24,143
  8. #8Edward17,501
  9. #9Frank15,768
  10. #10Thomas12,611
  11. #3,981Athan5
More about 1917

boys

925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 185,096 of them was named Athan, which outranked 13.5% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Athan
  1. #3,545York6
  2. #3,545Zed6
  3. #3,545Zion6
  4. #3,981Athan5
  5. #3,981Abbie5
  6. #3,981Abelardo5
  7. #3,981Abran5

Tied with 621 names at #3,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. ↑ 520Nicolas#1,304 → #784
  2. ↑ 469Hezekiah#1,415 → #946
  3. ↑ 433Hilliard#1,415 → #982
  4. ↑ 404Rayford#1,304 → #900
  5. ↑ 338Minoru#1,335 → #997
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,738Tatsuo#824 → #2,562
  2. ↓ 709Berlin#984 → #1,693
  3. ↓ 556Prentice#972 → #1,528
  4. ↓ 473Manning#964 → #1,437
  5. ↓ 457Lovell#939 → #1,396

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

See the top 100 for 1917 →