Atalie
Feminine · “the Lord is exalted”
Athaliah is the only woman who ever ruled Judah in her own right, and she got there by killing everyone with a better claim. She held the throne for six years. One grandson was hidden from her as a baby, and when he was seven the priests produced him and she was cut down at the palace gate.
How old is the name Atalie?
Atalie first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Atalie alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,000 people named Atalie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Atalie most popular?
Atalie peaked in 2019, reaching #2561 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 9,371 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Athalyah to Atalie
The story of Atalie
The story is in the second book of Kings and it is told with almost no commentary, which makes it colder. Athaliah is a queen mother who, when her son dies, destroys the royal line and takes the throne herself, and the text simply reports it. Racine took the story for his last play in 1691 and made it one of the great French tragedies, which is how the name reached French and then English use — Athalie is the French form and Atalie is its plainer spelling. There is a second and much likelier road for the American entries: Natalie without its first letter, which is a common enough respelling that both origins are live for any particular family.
Meaningscholars disagree
the Lord is exalted
Hebrew Athalyah joins a first element of disputed meaning to a shortened form of the divine name. The Lord is exalted is the usual reading; afflicted by the Lord has also been proposed. If the name is instead Natalie with the front letter dropped, the source is Latin natalis, of birth, and the meaning is entirely different.
How the name formed
- Athalyah
- Athalie
- Atalie
Related forms: Athalie · Atalya
Pronouncing Atalie
AT-uh-lee
Three syllables, stress on the first. uh-TAH-lee, with the weight in the middle, is used in Spanish-speaking families. The French Athalie puts it at the end, a-ta-LEE.
Nicknames for Atalie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 201968 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2561reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −70.8%7 in 2025, from 24
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Atalie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Athalie in French — same name
- Atalya in Hebrew — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Missouri.
Atalies among us
people named Atalie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Atalie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Atalie
- #11932
- Atalie on the 2025 chart
- #941
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Atalie went to 7 girls in 2025, but Attalie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 19, which makes it the 941st most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,991 places above the chart.
- Attalie12
- Atalie7
About 1 girl in 84,593 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Atalie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Roslynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Atalie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Roslynn climbed just as high around 1957, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Roslynn's path sketches the road Atalie is walking now.
Atalie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Atalie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Atalie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented biblical bearer with a story that is entirely her own.
- Three short forms of different registers, two of which are names elsewhere.
- Three light syllables that sit easily in front of most surnames.
- It will be heard and written as Natalie by a great many people.
- The biblical figure it can be traced to is a mass murderer, which anyone who looks it up will find.
- The stress falls differently in English, Spanish and French, so three sayings are in use.
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Feminine · #11932 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Atalies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Atalie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Atalie?
- Atalie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Attalie is the more common one — 12 births in 2025 against 7 for Atalie.
- How popular is the name Atalie in 2025?
- Atalie ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Atalie?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Atalie — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Atalie with classmates?
- Atalie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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