Atara Girl
How popular is Atara?
#3,388 girl name in 2025
45 baby girls were named Atara in the US in 2025, making it the 3388th most popular girl name.
Atara popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,388 for girls (▲ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 45 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+15% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,841 in 2015, #3,840 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (55 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,961 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1971 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Atara counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Atarah family of names ranked #1,440 for girls in 2025 (#1,524 the year before), with 114 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Atarah | 69 | 61% |
| Atara | 45 | 39% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Atara is most popular
Babies named Atara per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.2 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (80 girls)
- Maryland: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Atara by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #4,808 |
| 1980s | 124 | #4,108 |
| 1990s | 150 | #4,387 |
| 2000s | 258 | #3,935 |
| 2010s | 381 | #2,961 |
| 2020s | 264 | #3,215 |
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Questions
- Is Atara a boy or girl name?
- Atara is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Atara were girls.
- How popular is the name Atara?
- 45 baby girls were named Atara in the US in 2025, making it the 3388th most popular girl name.
- When was Atara most popular?
- Atara peaked in 2018, when 55 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,961 in 2018.
- How many people are named Atara?
- 1,227 babies have been named Atara in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,213 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Atara most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Atara was most common in New Jersey, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.