Atiyah
Atiyah was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 234 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Atiyah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,801, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2001, the peak
Atiyah peaked in 2001, when 12 girls were given it, #8,250 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #13,801 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,265 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,389 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,830 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,992 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,794 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,558 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,755 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,081 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,143 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,214 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,532 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,422 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,454 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,020 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,106 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,375 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,217 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,407 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,069 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,254 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,250 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,936 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,522 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,339 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,896 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,668 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,657 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,923 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,482 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,939 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,193 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,518 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Atiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Atiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Atiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atiyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 231 Americans named Atiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 222 people named Atiyah (215 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Atiyah?
Atiyah is a less common spelling of Atiya: SSA has recorded 234 Atiyah and 1,394 Atiya since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,255 babies since 1880, Atiyah is the third most given (10% 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 Atiyah
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 Atiyah and names like it
- Compare Atiyah and AtiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAtiyah peaked in 2001.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Atiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Atiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.