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Atha vs Athan

American parents have registered 2,173 Athans since 1880, against 1,540 Athas. Athan is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Atha against Athan, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Atha Athan

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 137 years in which either name was published, Atha for 81 years and Athan for 56 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Atha Athan
Total US births 1,5402,173
Most in one year 60123
Babies in 2025 under 548
Estimated living today 2402,100
Median age today 7713
Peak year 19182012
Best rank 1,005th girls1,367th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,676th
First recorded 18821917
Girls / boys 1,441 / 990 / 2,173

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Athas alive today are over 77; half the Athans are over 13. That is 64 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Atha and Athan.