Atarah

#2,542 for girls in 2025, 69 births

Peak · girls
2018 · 141 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
976
since 1975

Atarah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Atarah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #1,540, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#2,54269
2024#2,79860
2023#2,85259
2022#3,53644
2021#3,61442
2020#3,54642
2019#1,716121
2018#1,540141
2017#1,703125
2016#4,25034
2015#4,58430
2014#5,79722
2013#9,03612
2012#6,57619
2011#10,37410
2010#11,2469
2009#9,37912
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2007#11,6309
2006#10,61110
2005#16,4625
2004#16,0995
2003#15,7845
2002#15,4325
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1999#10,3458
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1994#8,8049
1993#9,5598
1992#10,4797
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five girls were named Atarah! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Atarah
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 256 spots since 2024 (#2,798#2,542)
  • 1,004 spots since 2020 (#3,546#2,542)
  • 2,042 spots since 2015 (#4,584#2,542)
Rise & fade · girls
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2018 at #1,540 (141 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,064
  • Highest: 1 in 12,064 girls born in 2018 were named Atarah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 23,294 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 53.6% of all girls named Atarah (523) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#9,067 (1975)#9,067
1980s22#9,095 (1980)#10,247
1990s53#8,766 (1995)#10,267
2000s57#9,379 (2009)#13,569
2010s523#1,540 (2018)#5,682
2020s316#2,542 (2025)#3,148

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.

Atarah in 2017

girls
#1,703
125 births · 1 in 13,812 girls

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #1,703Atarah125
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 13,812 of them was named Atarah, which outranked 90.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Atarah
  1. #1,697Elara126
  2. #1,697Mazie126
  3. #1,697Yoselin126
  4. #1,703Atarah125
  5. #1,703Abbie125
  6. #1,703Adleigh125
  7. #1,703Analise125
  8. #1,716Donna124
  9. #1,716Emmaleigh124
  10. #1,716Faigy124

Tied with 12 names at #1,703; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017