Atha
Atha was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 1,540 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Atha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,072, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1918, the peak
Atha peaked in 1918, when 60 babies were given it (51 girls, #1,006 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,072 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,675 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,879 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,321 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,833 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,661 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,333 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,460 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,149 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,860 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 7 | #4,769 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,496 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,973 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,211 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,700 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,679 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,191 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,496 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,024 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,486 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,928 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,957 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,824 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,121 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,856 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,113 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,214 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,601 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,634 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,954 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,010 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,922 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,474 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,526 | 23.4 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,506 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,434 | 25.8 |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,197 | 34.9 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,684 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,385 | 28.5 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,223 | 33.7 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,351 | 28.8 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,227 | 33.6 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,353 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,079 | 41.6 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,128 | 37.3 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,088 | 39.2 |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,076 | 40.7 |
| 1918 | 51 | #1,006 | 44.1 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,208 | 33.3 |
| 1916 | 45 | #1,029 | 43.1 |
| 1915 | 44 | #1,000 | 44.7 |
| 1914 | 34 | #1,024 | 44.6 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,409 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,147 | 37.6 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,120 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,272 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,110 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 19 | #916 | 56.8 |
| 1907 | 17 | #926 | 53.4 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,051 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,018 | 48.0 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,671 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,329 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 15 | #905 | 56.8 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,013 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 16 | #943 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 16 | #816 | 68.7 |
| 1898 | 15 | #889 | 58.0 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,177 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,003 | 46.2 |
| 1895 | 11 | #990 | 47.1 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,366 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 11 | #903 | 51.7 |
| 1892 | 11 | #911 | 51.8 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,346 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,296 | 28.0 |
| 1888 | 10 | #840 | 56.0 |
| 1887 | 7 | #948 | 48.0 |
| 1886 | 7 | #904 | 48.4 |
| 1885 | 6 | #930 | 45.1 |
| 1883 | 5 | #935 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 5 | #919 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Atha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,540 Americans recorded as Atha, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Atha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atha, and how old are they?
An estimated 225 Americans named Atha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 369 people named Atha (313 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,860 babies since 1880, Atha is the most given (83% of them).
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 Atha
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 Atha and names like it
- Compare Atha and AtheaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAtha peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Atha since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Atha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Atha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.