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Ata

#7,723 in 2025Boys' name

Good

Ata has been given to 316 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,723 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Ata, 2025

1 in 332,000

Ata over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ata: meaning, origin, and history

Good

Proto-Turkic

What Ata means

Ata means “good”, associated with agathós.

Origin, language, and formation

Ata is used in Faroese, Puyuma and Turkish. Its origins include Proto-Turkic.

Ata comes through Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agatha.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Ata is pronounced /ˈɛaːʰta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 boys were recorded with the name Ata between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,009 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,324 in 2020 to #7,723 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,016 in 2015 to #7,723 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ata?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,723
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ata sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ata was born before 2012 — so the typical Ata is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
316
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Ata rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+652
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,399
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,707
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2018 (18)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,009
1984

Ata around the world

Where Ata ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #500
    in 2003
  • France
    2004–2025
    #5,418
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ata by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,399
Best rank ever
#5,009
1984
Peak year
2018
18 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
316
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Ata

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ata

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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