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Athaliah

#2,217 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly Yahweh is exalted

Athaliah has been given to 416 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #2,217 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Athaliah, 2025

1 in 39,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Athaliah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly Yahweh is exalted

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Athaliah means

Athaliah may mean “Yahweh is exalted”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 416 girls were recorded with the name Athaliah between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,217 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,335 in 2020 to #2,217 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,726 in 2015 to #2,217 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 Athaliah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,217
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Athaliah 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 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Athaliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Athaliahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Athaliah was born before 2021 — so the typical Athaliah is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
416
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 59.1% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Athaliah 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
+422
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,118
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+12,509
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
13.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (83)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,217
2025

Spellings of Athaliah

Athaliah is not the most common spelling — Thalia is, with 48.8% against Athaliah's 1.2%.

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 Athaliah is used

Across 1910–2025, Athaliah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 351,710 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 in —

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. Athaliah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Athaliah around the world

Where Athaliah 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
    2019–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2023
    #5,563
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #2,104
    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.

Athaliah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,217
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,118
Best rank ever
#2,217
2025
Peak year
2025
83 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
416
Count in 2025
83

Names similar to Athaliah

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

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Sibling names for Athaliah

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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