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Atarah

Feminine · “crown”

1975high 2018
#2542 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare69 girls in 2025

Atarah is a crown in Hebrew — and she is named once in Chronicles, as a wife of Jerahmeel and nothing more.

How old is the name Atarah?

Atarah first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Atarah is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Atarah are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Atarah most popular?

Atarah peaked in 2018, reaching #1540 nationally. Today it ranks #2542, 1,002 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Atarah

Atarah is named once, in a Chronicles genealogy, as the wife of Jerahmeel and the mother of Onam — nothing else survives about her. The word means a crown, from a verb meaning to encircle, and appears throughout Hebrew poetry. The name is in current American use.

Meaning

crown, wreath

From the Hebrew atarah, 'crown' or 'wreath', from atar, 'to surround' or 'encircle'. 1 Chronicles names an Atarah in a genealogy. The word is ordinary Hebrew and the reading undisputed.

How the name formed

  1. atar
  2. atarah
  3. Atarah

Related forms: עטרה · Atara

Pronouncing Atarah

ah-TAH-rah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last, a-ta-RAH.

Nicknames for Atarah

Moderate

TaraThe back of the name, and a name in its own right with a large record
AtiThe front of the name, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1975–20251417101416919752025

US babies named Atarah per year from 1975 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#15401970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1975
Most girls named
2018141 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1540reached in 2018
Change vs 2024
+15.0%69 in 2025, from 60
Atarah sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2018, with 141 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Atarah in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • עטרה in Hebrew — transliteration
  • Atara in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.

Atarahs among us

1,000

people named Atarah are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was named Atarah

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Atarah

#2542
Atarah on the 2025 chart
#846
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Atarah went to 69 girls in 2025, but Atara 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 — 1,696 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 14,099 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,294 for Atarah 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

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Is it right for you

The Imari test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Atarah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Imari climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Imari's path sketches the road Atarah is walking now.

40%chance Atarah will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Atarah, aligned on its peakImari· peak 2001not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+20 yrsImari · #5706Atarah today
Atarah today is about where Imari stood in 2008 — 7 years past a #1540-sized peak. By 2023, Imari had settled around #5706.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Atarah 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 Atarah is headed

19752030

US babies named Atarah per year, 1975 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Atarah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Steady-6% by 2030projected around #2,775 in 2030

Low 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.

Atarah beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Atarah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Atarahthis name69#2542Lennie69#2542Primrose69#2542Alaysha69#2542Lynn69#2542

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The crown meaning is concrete and undisputed.
  • Tara is available as a short form with a large record.
  • Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
What to consider
  • The biblical bearer has no story attached.
  • Atara and Atarah are both in circulation.
  • It reads as specifically Hebrew.

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Frequently asked

How many Atarahs 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 Atarah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Atarah?
Atarah is the most-used spelling in US records — 69 of the 114 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Atara.
How popular is the name Atarah in 2025?
Atarah ranks #2542 among US girl names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Atarah?
About 1 in every 23,294 US girls born in 2025 was named Atarah — 69 in all.
Will my child share the name Atarah with classmates?
Atarah will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Atarah

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Lennie#2542 · Primrose#2542 · Alaysha#2542 · Lynn#2542 · Taelyn#2542 · Eliyana#2542 · Ania#2542 · Hinda#2542

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