Athens — #8733 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Athens

The Social Security Administration has registered 154 babies named Athens between 2006 and 2024, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Athens currently holds the #8733 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Athens is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 49 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Athens performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 69 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Athens shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Athens in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Athens 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 154 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.