Meaning not yet researched.
Athena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,477 in 2025. Its best rank was #76 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #76 in 2023; #109 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Athena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#109 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #76.
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Athena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,477 girls in 2025. Peak: #76 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 3,029 (2022).
In 2025, 2,477 US girls were named Athena, making it the 109th most common girls’ name of the year, down 19 places from #90 in 2024. That is 317 fewer than the 2,794 girls named Athena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #76, reached in 2023. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,029, in 2022. For comparison, it was #157 in 2015 and #1,836 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Athena in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 53,118 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 18,303 babies named Athena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 26,426 US girls were named Athena; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 3,029. In 2025 that was about 1 in 649 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Athena ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #18 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 15 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Athina, Atiana and Aithana 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, Icelandic and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Athina (902), Atiana (647), Aithana (493), Atheena (259), Atina (245), Athene (135), Athyna (116), Aythana (66), Athenna (57), Atyana (37), Atena (34), Atheana (17), and more.
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 Athena 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 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 17 | #18 | #61 |
| New Mexico | 23 | #42 | #113 |
| Nevada | 30 | #64 | #54 |
| Arizona | 80 | #66 | #95 |
| Delaware | 10 | #71 | — |
| California | 379 | #71 | #106 |
| Oregon | 37 | #81 | #63 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #82 | #70 |
| Oklahoma | 40 | #84 | #119 |
| Kansas | 33 | #89 | #173 |
| Wisconsin | 52 | #90 | #161 |
| Iowa | 32 | #91 | #185 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | #93 | #199 |
| Florida | 173 | #95 | #131 |
| Texas | 294 | #97 | #148 |
| Illinois | 85 | #105 | #211 |
| West Virginia | 14 | #107 | #193 |
| Idaho | 19 | #108 | #183 |
| New York | 136 | #112 | #181 |
| Washington | 55 | #116 | #107 |
| Missouri | 49 | #116 | #298 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #118 | — |
| Utah | 36 | #119 | #135 |
| Tennessee | 61 | #119 | #208 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #120 | #161 |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | #121 | #184 |
| Indiana | 53 | #123 | #156 |
| Minnesota | 40 | #130 | #179 |
| Nebraska | 16 | #139 | #153 |
| Colorado | 40 | #139 | #118 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #140 | #55 |
| Montana | 7 | #145 | #119 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #147 | #275 |
| Virginia | 52 | #151 | #221 |
| Kentucky | 29 | #154 | #337 |
| Maine | 7 | #157 | #229 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #163 | #273 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #165 | #181 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #165 | #369 |
| North Carolina | 61 | #168 | #209 |
| Maryland | 30 | #169 | #225 |
| Michigan | 51 | #169 | #193 |
| Massachusetts | 32 | #175 | #302 |
| Ohio | 62 | #181 | #192 |
| New Jersey | 43 | #195 | #205 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #226 | #333 |
| Georgia | 46 | #229 | #321 |
| Alabama | 20 | #239 | #361 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,477 | #109 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,794 | #90 | — | — |
| 2023 | 3,001 | #76 | — | — |
| 2022 | 3,029 | #78 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,717 | #98 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,518 | #107 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,726 | #104 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,605 | #117 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,381 | #127 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,178 | #142 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,054 | #157 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,692 | #195 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,462 | #220 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,310 | #246 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,013 | #312 | — | — |
| 2010 | 882 | #363 | — | — |
| 2009 | 742 | #429 | — | — |
| 2008 | 693 | #456 | — | — |
| 2007 | 732 | #439 | — | — |
| 2006 | 608 | #501 | — | — |
| 2005 | 659 | #461 | — | — |
| 2004 | 599 | #489 | — | — |
| 2003 | 538 | #524 | — | — |
| 2002 | 549 | #503 | — | — |
| 2001 | 551 | #499 | — | — |
| 2000 | 498 | #530 | — | — |
| 1999 | 493 | #517 | — | — |
| 1998 | 451 | #550 | — | — |
| 1997 | 316 | #682 | — | — |
| 1996 | 317 | #688 | — | — |
| 1995 | 297 | #706 | — | — |
| 1994 | 247 | #813 | — | — |
| 1993 | 270 | #762 | — | — |
| 1992 | 251 | #802 | — | — |
| 1991 | 264 | #778 | — | — |
| 1990 | 285 | #731 | — | — |
| 1989 | 279 | #710 | — | — |
| 1988 | 232 | #797 | — | — |
| 1987 | 203 | #848 | — | — |
| 1986 | 266 | #687 | — | — |
| 1985 | 326 | #594 | — | — |
| 1984 | 326 | #567 | — | — |
| 1983 | 336 | #548 | — | — |
| 1982 | 325 | #565 | — | — |
| 1981 | 323 | #570 | — | — |
| 1980 | 348 | #541 | — | — |
| 1979 | 445 | #457 | — | — |
| 1978 | 271 | #622 | — | — |
| 1977 | 266 | #630 | — | — |
| 1976 | 233 | #658 | — | — |
| 1975 | 252 | #625 | — | — |
| 1974 | 253 | #616 | — | — |
| 1973 | 219 | #682 | — | — |
| 1972 | 228 | #660 | — | — |
| 1971 | 220 | #693 | — | — |
| 1970 | 201 | #736 | — | — |
| 1969 | 176 | #763 | — | — |
| 1968 | 177 | #743 | — | — |
| 1967 | 164 | #767 | — | — |
| 1966 | 135 | #860 | — | — |
| 1965 | 127 | #887 | — | — |
| 1964 | 150 | #850 | — | — |
| 1963 | 128 | #934 | — | — |
| 1962 | 159 | #832 | — | — |
| 1961 | 150 | #869 | — | — |
| 1960 | 151 | #842 | — | — |
| 1959 | 123 | #945 | — | — |
| 1958 | 104 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1957 | 111 | #984 | — | — |
| 1956 | 127 | #886 | — | — |
| 1955 | 176 | #712 | — | — |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1928 | 42 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1924 | 51 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1922 | 53 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,817 | — | — |
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).