Athanasia

#11,057 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Athanasios

Athanasia has been given to 565 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #11,057 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Athanasia, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Athanasia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Athanasios

Ancient Greek and Spanish

What Athanasia means

Athanasia is a feminine form of Athanasios.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Athanasia is used in Greek and Ancient Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Athanasia → Athanasios → Αθανάσιος → Ἀθανάσιος. The family’s meaning is “to die”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements thnēískō.

Origin, language, and formation

Athanasia is used in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Spanish.

Athanasia comes through Ancient Greek ἀθανασία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Athanasios.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Athanasia is pronounced /ataˈnasja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 565 girls were recorded with the name Athanasia between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1974; its best national rank was #3,704 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,022 in 2020 to #11,057 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,970 in 2015 to #11,057 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.

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How common is Athanasia?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,057; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Athanasia 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Athanasia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Athanasias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Athanasia was born before 1994 — so the typical Athanasia is around 31 today.

Median birth year: 1994; About 31 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 541; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Athanasia 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: −1,421; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −2,035; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +913; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.00×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 47.1%; Peak was 1974 (17)
Years since peak: 51; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 40.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,704; 1974

Spellings of Athanasia

Athanasia is not the most common spelling — Tanasia is, with 68.5% against Athanasia's 31.5%.

Tanasia68.5%1,227
Athanasia31.5%565

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 Athanasia is used

Across 1910–2025, Athanasia was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 538,327 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Illinois1 in —
2New York1 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. Athanasia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Athanasia around the world

Where Athanasia 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
2012–2025
#4,201
in 2025
France
1924–1951
#1,526
in 1951
Canada
1991–2014
#2,567
in 2014
South Australia
1955–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Athanasia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,057
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 2,035
Best rank ever: #3,704; 1974
Peak year: 1974; 17 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 565
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Athanasia

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

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Sibling names for Athanasia

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

Melonie Kesha Nakia Karie Lucretia Sharla Nicola Charissa

For a brother

Shon Edwardo Scot Jerod Tracey Torrey Kelley Stacey

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