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Atarah

#2,545 in 2025Girls' name

Crown

Atarah has been given to 976 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,545 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 141 recorded.

Babies named Atarah, 2025

1 in 48,000

Atarah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atarah: meaning, origin, and history

Crown

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atarah means

Atarah means “crown”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 976 girls were recorded with the name Atarah between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 141 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,541 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,551 in 2020 to #2,545 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,601 in 2015 to #2,545 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.

How common is Atarah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,545
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atarah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atarah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atarahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atarah was born before 2018 — so the typical Atarah is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
976
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (523).

Is Atarah 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
+256
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,006
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,056
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 2018 (141)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,541
2018

Spellings of Atarah

Atarah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 77.8% against Atarah's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Atarah is used

Across 2016–2025, Atarah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 28,754 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 12,500
  2. 2Maryland1 in 14,286
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 33,333
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8California1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Atarah around the world

Where Atarah 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
    2010–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • France
    2022–2025
    #6,900
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Atarah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,545
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,006
Best rank ever
#1,541
2018
Peak year
2018
141 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
976
Count in 2025
69

Names similar to Atarah

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

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Sibling names for Atarah

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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