Athan
#2,676 for boys in 2025, 48 births
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 123 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,173since 1917
Athan over time
Rank among boys' names. Athan 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,676 | 48 |
| 2024 | #2,313 | 61 |
| 2023 | #2,047 | 73 |
| 2022 | #2,269 | 63 |
| 2021 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | #2,292 | 59 |
| 2019 | #2,110 | 68 |
| 2018 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #1,809 | 83 |
| 2016 | #1,724 | 90 |
| 2015 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2014 | #1,564 | 101 |
| 2013 | #1,528 | 105 |
| 2012 | #1,367 | 123 |
| 2011 | #1,484 | 109 |
| 2010 | #1,543 | 104 |
| 2009 | #1,562 | 104 |
| 2008 | #1,633 | 95 |
| 2007 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #1,698 | 83 |
| 2005 | #2,182 | 55 |
| 2004 | #2,419 | 46 |
| 2003 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #2,882 | 32 |
| 2001 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #2,476 | 38 |
| 1999 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
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| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
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| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
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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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#767 · 1 in 6,985
- Washington#929 · 1 in 7,185
- Texas#1,030 · 1 in 9,869
- Florida#1,090 · 1 in 10,218
Best ever in a state: #420 in Nevada, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #767 | 33 | 1 in 6,985 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 7,185 |
| Texas | #1,030 | 18 | 1 in 9,869 |
| Florida | #1,090 | 9 | 1 in 10,218 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Athan
- 363 spots since 2024 (#2,313 → #2,676)
- 384 spots since 2020 (#2,292 → #2,676)
- 959 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #2,676)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2012 at #1,367 (123 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 43.0% of all boys named Athan (935) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,867 (1924) | #3,867 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,173 (1946) | #3,421 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,991 |
| 1960s | 24 | #3,231 (1967) | #3,618 |
| 1970s | 47 | #3,622 (1972) | #4,633 |
| 1980s | 92 | #3,401 (1985) | #4,217 |
| 1990s | 80 | #3,704 (1999) | #6,628 |
| 2000s | 597 | #1,562 (2009) | #2,244 |
| 2010s | 935 | #1,367 (2012) | #1,706 |
| 2020s | 366 | #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 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 15,422 of them was named Athan, which outranked 90.4% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,359Kenji124
- #1,359Mikhail124
- #1,359Sami124
- #1,367Athan123
- #1,367Carsten123
- #1,367Castiel123
- #1,367Chaz123
- #1,376Alexandre122
- #1,376Beck122
- #1,376Donavan122
Tied with 8 names at #1,367; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.