Atalie vs Atara
American parents have registered 1,227 Ataras since 1880, against 966 Atalies. Atara is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Atalie Atara
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Atara for 39 years and Atalie for 15 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1971–1976 Atara ahead
- 1977–1979 Atalie ahead
- 1983–2016 Atara ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 2017–2020 Atalie ahead
- 2021–2025 Atara ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Atalie | Atara | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 966 | 1,227 |
| Most in one year | 68 | 55 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | 45 |
| Estimated living today | 950 | 1,200 |
| Median age today | 13 | 14 |
| Peak year | 2019 | 2018 |
| Best rank | 2,561st girls | 2,962nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 11,932nd | 3,389th |
| First recorded | 1972 | 1971 |
| Girls / boys | 966 / 0 | 1,227 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Atalie Texas (7.3×), California (3.2×)
- Atara New York (9.9×), New Jersey (6.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Atalie and Atara.