Atara
Feminine · “crown”
Atara is the Hebrew word for a crown, and it is a real object in the tradition as well as a word: the atarah is the decorated band at the neck of a prayer shawl.
How old is the name Atara?
Atara first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Atara alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,200 people named Atara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Atara most popular?
Atara peaked in 2018, reaching #2962 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 427 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From atarah to Atara
The story of Atara
Atarah appears once in the Hebrew Bible as a woman's name, in a genealogy in Chronicles, and the word itself is used throughout for crowns and garlands. Its use as a modern given name belongs to the twentieth-century Israeli practice of taking plain Hebrew vocabulary as names, and it is used in observant Jewish communities in America and in Israel alike.
Meaning
crown, diadem
From Hebrew atarah, a crown or wreath; the word appears in the Hebrew Bible for both royal crowns and garlands, and in later usage for the ornamented collar of a tallit.
How the name formed
- atarah
- Atara
Related forms: Atarah · Atara
Pronouncing Atara
ah-TAH-rah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last, a-ta-RAH.
Nicknames for Atara
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 201855 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2962reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −2.2%45 in 2025, from 46
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.
Atara in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Atarah in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Atara in Yiddish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey, Maryland.
Ataras among us
people named Atara are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Atara
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Atara
- #3389
- Atara on the 2025 chart
- #846
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Atara went to 45 girls in 2025, but Atarah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 114, which makes it the 846th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,543 places above the chart.
- Atarah69
- Atara45
About 1 girl in 14,099 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 35,717 for Atara 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 Kaija test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Atara's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kaija climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kaija's path sketches the road Atara is walking now.
Atara 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
Where Atara is headed
Atara should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Atara beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Atara in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a concrete object behind it that can be shown rather than explained.
- Tara sits inside it as a complete name of its own.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Tara is far better known in English and the name will be heard as it.
- The stress differs between the Hebrew and American readings.
- Atara and Atarah are both used and relatives may prefer the fuller spelling.
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Feminine · #3389 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Ataras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Atara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Atara?
- Atara is one of 2 recorded spellings. Atarah is the more common one — 69 births in 2025 against 45 for Atara.
- How popular is the name Atara in 2025?
- Atara ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Atara?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Atara — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Atara with classmates?
- Atara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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