Meaning not yet researched.
Atarah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,541 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,541 in 2018; #2,545 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Atarah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,545 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,541.
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Atarah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,541 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 141 (2018).
In 2025, 69 US girls were named Atarah, making it the 2,545th most common girls’ name of the year, up 256 places from #2,801 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 60 girls named Atarah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,541, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 141. For comparison, it was #4,602 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Atarah in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 976 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 523 babies named Atarah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 737 US girls were named Atarah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,294 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Atarah ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #773 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Atara, Atira and Athara are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Atara (1,227), Atira (297), Athara (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Atarah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 6 | #773 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,155 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,555 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,713 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,674 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,544 | — | — |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2017 | 125 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,602 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,822 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,099 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,624 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,483 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,379 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,457 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,756 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,696 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,807 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,413 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,074 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,724 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,353 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,453 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,961 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,843 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,885 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,638 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,594 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,304 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,553 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,563 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,207 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,188 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,177 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).