Atira — girls' name

What the Data Says About Atira

The Social Security Administration has registered 292 babies named Atira between 1978 and 2020, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Atira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Atira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 137 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Atira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Atira in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Atira 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 292 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.