Atiya — girls' name
1,394 babies named Atiya in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Atiya was born in this single decade.
114 babies were named Atiya in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Atiya
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,394 babies named Atiya between 1972 and 2023, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Atiya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 114 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Atiya performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 386 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Atiya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 227 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Atiya in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Atiya 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 1,394 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.
Atiya at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Atiya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1972
- Peak year (1981)
- 114
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,394 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 114 births in a single year.
Atiya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 386 births that decade — 28% of Atiya's all-time total
Atiya decade highlights
- Peak decade 386 births
- Runner-up 310 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Atiya's strongest decade
386 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Atiya by state
Where Atiya concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 227 | 16.3% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 162 | 11.6% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 72 | 5.2% |
| #4 | California | | 12 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Maryland | | 11 | 0.8% |
| #6 | Michigan | | 7 | 0.5% |
| #7 | North Carolina | | 7 | 0.5% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.4% |
227 of 1,394 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 9 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 16.3% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 11.6% of nationwide
- New Jersey 5.2% of nationwide
- California 0.9% of nationwide
- Maryland 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 9 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 16.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Atiya appears in 9 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.