Girl name#535 of girl names
Athena
Pronounced AH0 TH IY1 N AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 2022
- 123 years in use
How popular is Athena?
Athena is a girls' name, and first appears in 1902. It has been given to 50,630 children — the 535th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 3,025 children were given it.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 010
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Athena
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Athena
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Athena?
- Athena ranks 535th among girls' names in US records, with 50,630 births since 1902. Over the past decade it accounts for 25,992.
- Is Athena a unisex name?
- No. Athena is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Athena most popular?
- 2022, when 3,025 children were given the name. It has been in use for 123 years and is still recorded as of 2024.