Athea
Athea was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,180 among girls’ names; 320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Athea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Athea?
#7,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Athea rose from #8,513 in 2015 to #7,180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 9.3 per million.
19 babies in 2020, the peak
Athea peaked in 2020, when 19 girls were given it, #6,111 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,180 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,018 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,539 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,762 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,998 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,111 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,780 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,833 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,132 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,645 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,513 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,857 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,197 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,685 | 7.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,643 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,639 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,733 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,765 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,189 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,910 | 3.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,571 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,241 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,788 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,479 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,526 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,098 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,968 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,046 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,411 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,638 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,368 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,059 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,868 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,448 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,487 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Athea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Athea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Athea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Athea, and how old are they?
An estimated 315 Americans named Athea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 346 people named Athea (340 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 236 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% 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, Athea is the second most given (17% 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 Athea
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 Athea and names like it
- Compare Athea and AthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAthea peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Athea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Athea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.