Atara
Atara was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,401 among girls’ names; 1,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Atara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Atara?
#3,401 among girls’ names, 2025
Atara rose from #3,852 in 2015 to #3,401 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 28.0 per million.
55 babies in 2018, the peak
Atara peaked in 2018, when 55 girls were given it, #2,964 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,401 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,401 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,771 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,426 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,220 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,843 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,855 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,964 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,253 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,594 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,852 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,190 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,251 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,977 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,694 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,754 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,954 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,946 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,248 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,249 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,452 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,440 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,684 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,917 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,572 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,331 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,731 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,750 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,889 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,177 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,239 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,878 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,395 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,499 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,619 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,318 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,127 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,158 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,869 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,199 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,877 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,456 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,126 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,529 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,841 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,185 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,730 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,881 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,347 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,058 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,949 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,385 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,826 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Atara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Atara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Atara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atara, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,227 Americans ever recorded as Atara. The median Atara alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 862 people named Atara (862 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 961 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 212 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 392 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 554 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Atara born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15 | #989 | 6.2× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #539 | 3.4× |
Where Atara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Atara is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 6.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Atara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,500 babies since 1880, Atara is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 119 babies (38%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Atara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Atara and names like it
- Compare Atara and AtarahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAtara peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Atara since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Atara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Atara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.