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Atoya

Girls’ name Recorded 1973-1991

Atoya was last recorded in 1991, when 7 babies were given it; 153 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

No sourced meaning is on record for Atoya: Wiktionary has no entry for it as a given name.

Babies named Atoya each year, first recorded in 1973
Atoya, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.510152019701990201020251981 peak: 19
Atoya, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.510152019701990201020251981 peak: 19
Atoya, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.510152019701990201020251981 peak: 19
Atoya, 1970-2025; highest in 1981.510152019701990201020251981 peak: 19

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Atoya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

How popular is Atoya?

Unranked in 2025

Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,363, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

19 babies in 1981, the peak

Atoya peaked in 1981, when 19 girls were given it, #4,016 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.

Atoya by year
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
19917#10,3633.7
19908#9,3194.2
19888#8,4564.5
198710#6,8265.8
19868#7,8054.7
19859#7,0015.2
198410#6,3415.9
198211#5,9496.5
198119#4,01611.4
19809#6,8295.4
Every recorded year (15)
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
19799#6,7345.6
197811#5,5927.2
197710#5,9216.5
197511#5,1827.5
197313#4,3778.9

Download Atoya’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Atoya a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Atoya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Atoya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Atoya, and how old are they?

An estimated 147 Americans named Atoya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Atoya (167 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 148 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,255 babies since 1880, Atoya is the fourth most given (6.8% of them).

Atoya and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Atiya1,394under 51981
Atia386under 52008
Atiyah234under 52001
Atoya153under 51981
Ataya88under 52005

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 Atoya

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1970-2025
Shemeka1,563
Shemika1,454
Tenika1,029
Syreeta1,960
Shaunta1,230
Lashaunda1,421

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 Atoya and names like it

  1. Compare Atoya and AtiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1980sAtoya peaked in 1981.
  3. The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Atoya.
  4. The names of the MillennialsMost people named Atoya alive today were born 1981-1996.
  5. Names starting with AMost given first.

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