Atena

Girls' name

English equivalent of Athena

Atena has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Atena, 2024

1 in 334,000

Atena over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atena: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Athena

Ancient Greek

What Atena means

Atena is a English equivalent of Athena.

Origin, language, and formation

Atena is used in Indonesian and Romanian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Atena comes through Latin Athēna and Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Athena.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Atena is pronounced /aˈtena/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Atena between 2008 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,635 in 2024.

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.

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How common is Atena?

Atena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 334,000; 10 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 162,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 231,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Atena 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 2024 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 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atena was born before 2017 — so the typical Atena is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 55.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 34; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Atena 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,635; 2024

Spellings of Atena

Atena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 39.2% against Atena's <0.01%.

Anna39.2%914,859
Tina12.5%292,146
Lena6.3%146,479
Alexa5.6%131,551
Ana4.8%111,359
Elena4.6%108,013
Alana2.9%68,264
Athena2.3%53,118

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.

Atena around the world

Where Atena 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
2015–2025
#3,333
in 2025
France
2019–2025
#3,953
in 2025
Canada
2020–2024
#3,457
in 2024

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

Atena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,635; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 10 that year
First recorded: 2008
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 34
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Atena

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

Riena Viena Atete Azeena Kaena Asena Xilena Atenea Avena Alhena Novena Alyena Atenas Areena Rhaena Erena Laena Azena Edena Weena Ravena Ethena Gwena Pualena

Sibling names for Atena

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

For a sister

Noah Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie Malani

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rio Rome Shlomo

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