Atika

Girls' name

Clear, pure

Atika has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2014, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Atika, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atika: meaning, origin, and history

Clear, pure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atika means

Atika means “clear, pure”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Atika is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʕaː.ti.ka/ for Atika.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 girls were recorded with the name Atika between 1982 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2014; its best national rank was #9,319 in 1982.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Atika?

Atika 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 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Atika 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atika was born before 2008 — so the typical Atika is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 74; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Atika 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 2014 (8)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,319; 1982

Spellings of Atika

Atika is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 22.9% against Atika's <0.01%.

Tina22.9%292,146
Anita16.9%215,165
Erika9.9%125,664
Aria7.5%95,674
Alina3.6%45,387
Fatima3.1%38,945
Alisa2.7%34,705
Tia2.7%33,832

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.

Atika around the world

Where Atika 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
1996–2025
#4,201
in 2025
France
1951–2025
#4,524
in 2025

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

Atika 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: #9,319; 1982
Peak year: 2014; 8 that year
First recorded: 1982
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 74
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Atika

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

Atina Atira Emika Naika Eshika Reika Onnika Ruhika Yuvika Adrika Atisha Navika Naomika Vika Shivika Inika Atiye Amika Atiyana Neika Aarvika Atiana Adhvika Elika

Sibling names for Atika

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

Honesty Elayna Montserrat Priya Yamileth Braylee Laylah Vivien

For a brother

Jai Vihaan Casen Gannon Constantine Cain Branson Korbin

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