Atha — unisex name

What the Data Says About Atha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,441 babies named Atha between 1882 and 1970, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Atha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1970. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 51 babies received it in a single year. Atha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Atha performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 391 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Atha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 58 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Atha in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Atha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,441 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.