Atarah
Atarah was given to 69 girls in 2025, #2,545 among girls’ names; 976 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atarah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Atarah?
#2,545 among girls’ names, 2025
Atarah rose from #4,601 in 2015 to #2,545 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 42.9 per million.
141 babies in 2018, the peak
Atarah peaked in 2018, when 141 girls were given it, #1,541 among girls’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,545 | 42.9 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,801 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,857 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,543 | 26.8 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,622 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,551 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,718 | 72.1 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,541 | 82.9 |
| 2017 | 125 | #1,706 | 72.4 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,264 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,601 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,820 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,094 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,621 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,479 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,373 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,453 | 6.5 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,752 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,691 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,800 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,407 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,067 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,718 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,345 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,446 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,956 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,838 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,879 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,632 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,587 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,298 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,547 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,558 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,205 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,186 | 3.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,175 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Atarah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Atarah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Atarah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atarah, and how old are they?
An estimated 968 Americans named Atarah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Atarah (581 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 666 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,500 babies since 1880, Atarah is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 119 babies (58%), the 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 Atarah
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 Atarah and names like it
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