Atara
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 55 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,227since 1971
Atara over time
Rank among girls' names. Atara has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 |
| 2024 | #3,395 | 46 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Atara! It came in at #4,810, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Atara is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#733 · 1 in 3,769
- New Jersey#831 · 1 in 4,490
- Maryland#920 · 1 in 4,670
Best ever in a state: #535 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #733 | 23 | 1 in 3,769 |
| New Jersey | #831 | 8 | 1 in 4,490 |
| Maryland | #920 | 5 | 1 in 4,670 |
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See more about Atara
- 6 spots since 2024 (#3,395 → #3,389)
- 452 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #3,389)
- 453 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #3,389)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2018 at #2,962 (55 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 30,929 girls born in 2018 were named Atara (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.1% of all girls named Atara (381) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #4,810 (1971) | #7,390 |
| 1980s | 124 | #4,109 (1983) | #6,198 |
| 1990s | 150 | #4,393 (1993) | #6,515 |
| 2000s | 258 | #3,936 (2008) | #5,161 |
| 2010s | 381 | #2,962 (2018) | #4,028 |
| 2020s | 264 | #3,215 (2021) | #3,503 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Atara in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 30,929 of them was named Atara, which outranked 83.7% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,928Seven56
- #2,928Syeda56
- #2,928Symone56
- #2,962Atara55
- #2,962Aella55
- #2,962Aleeyah55
- #2,962Alijah55
- #3,004Adaly54
- #3,004Adelle54
- #3,004Allegra54
Tied with 41 names at #2,962; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.