How popular is “Athena” in the USA?

Number of people named “Athena” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Athena” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Athena” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Athena” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Athena” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Athena” by birth year

This chart shows how “Athena” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1902	5	0.000012929	5	100%
1906	6	0.000014004	6	100%
1909	6	0.000011737	6	100%
1912	10	0.000010121	10	100%
1914	10	0.00000706	10	100%
1915	22	0.000012006	22	100%
1916	24	0.000012407	24	100%
1917	38	0.000018936	38	100%
1918	35	0.000016121	35	100%
1919	44	0.000020851	44	100%
1920	40	0.000017678	40	100%
1921	37	0.000015849	37	100%
1922	53	0.000023153	53	100%
1923	36	0.000015635	36	100%
1924	51	0.000021414	51	100%
1925	38	0.000016286	38	100%
1926	42	0.000018293	42	100%
1927	39	0.000016815	39	100%
1928	42	0.000018576	42	100%
1929	38	0.000017334	38	100%
1930	47	0.00002114	47	100%
1931	33	0.000015682	33	100%
1932	27	0.000012788	27	100%
1933	31	0.000015504	31	100%
1934	17	0.000008186	17	100%
1935	28	0.000013398	28	100%
1936	17	0.000008183	17	100%
1937	14	0.000006571	14	100%
1938	17	0.000007683	17	100%
1939	14	0.000006354	14	100%
1940	13	0.000005646	13	100%
1941	23	0.00000944	23	100%
1942	22	0.000008053	22	100%
1943	18	0.000006377	18	100%
1944	17	0.00000632	17	100%
1945	17	0.000006408	17	100%
1946	15	0.000004694	15	100%
1947	22	0.000006107	22	100%
1948	30	0.000008689	30	100%
1949	27	0.000007748	27	100%
1950	27	0.000007707	27	100%
1951	28	0.000007601	28	100%
1952	19	0.000005003	19	100%
1953	26	0.000006747	26	100%
1954	45	0.000011305	45	100%
1955	176	0.000043835	176	100%
1956	127	0.000030803	127	100%
1957	111	0.000026415	111	100%
1958	104	0.000025158	104	100%
1959	123	0.000029582	123	100%
1960	151	0.000036352	151	100%
1961	150	0.000036212	150	100%
1962	159	0.000039402	159	100%
1963	128	0.000032338	128	100%
1964	150	0.000038584	150	100%
1965	127	0.00003503	127	100%
1966	135	0.000038842	135	100%
1967	163	0.000048013	163	100%
1968	177	0.000052391	177	100%
1969	176	0.000050643	176	100%
1970	201	0.000055732	201	100%
1971	220	0.000064096	220	100%
1972	228	0.000072542	228	100%
1973	219	0.000072591	219	100%
1974	253	0.000083224	253	100%
1975	252	0.00008346	252	100%
1976	233	0.000076789	233	100%
1977	266	0.00008374	266	100%
1978	271	0.000085385	271	100%
1979	445	0.000133754	445	100%
1980	348	0.00010103	348	100%
1981	323	0.000093369	323	100%
1982	325	0.000092646	325	100%
1983	336	0.000097016	336	100%
1984	326	0.000093443	326	100%
1985	326	0.000091339	326	100%
1986	266	0.00007478	266	100%
1987	203	0.000056301	203	100%
1988	232	0.000062787	232	100%
1989	279	0.000072572	279	100%
1990	285	0.000072107	285	100%
1991	264	0.000067775	264	100%
1992	251	0.000065343	251	100%
1993	270	0.000071613	270	100%
1994	247	0.00006644	247	100%
1995	297	0.0000811	297	100%
1996	317	0.000086916	317	100%
1997	316	0.000087154	316	100%
1998	451	0.000122614	451	100%
1999	493	0.000133464	493	100%
2000	498	0.000131749	498	100%
2001	551	0.000147193	551	100%
2002	549	0.000146859	549	100%
2003	538	0.000141493	538	100%
2004	599	0.000156768	599	100%
2005	659	0.000171398	659	100%
2006	608	0.000153683	608	100%
2007	732	0.000183106	732	100%
2008	693	0.000176306	693	100%
2009	742	0.000194232	742	100%
2010	882	0.000238653	882	100%
2011	1013	0.000276943	1013	100%
2012	1310	0.000358181	1310	100%
2013	1462	0.000401024	1462	100%
2014	1692	0.000456511	1692	100%
2015	2052	0.000554458	2052	100%
2016	2177	0.000593399	2177	100%
2017	2381	0.000665791	2381	100%
2018	2604	0.000740636	2604	100%
2019	2722	0.000784227	2722	100%
2020	2515	0.000752864	2515	100%
2021	2716	0.000801665	2716	100%
2022	3025	0.000894141	3025	100%
2023	2996	0.000904809	2996	100%
2024	2788	0.000837614	2788	100%

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