Fun Facts About the Name Ataliah
- 26 babies named Ataliah: U.S. records list 26 babies given the name Ataliah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Ataliah Mean?
Ataliah is a spelling variant of the biblical Hebrew name Athaliah (Hebrew עֲתַלְיָה, Atalyah), also written Atalia or Atalya in modern Hebrew. The name ends in the theophoric element -yah, a short form of the divine name YHWH, so the final part means "the Lord" or "Yahweh." The first element is disputed. One common explanation links it to a Hebrew root meaning "to be exalted" or "to grow great," giving the sense "the Lord is exalted." Another reading of the same consonants yields "the Lord has afflicted" or "afflicted of the Lord." Because both readings rest on the same Hebrew letters, the original sense is not settled.
Ataliah Name History & Origins
The name enters English through the Bible. In the Hebrew scriptures, Athaliah is a queen of Judah: the daughter of King Ahab of Israel and his wife Jezebel, she married Jehoram of Judah, and after the death of her son King Ahaziah she seized the throne and ordered the remaining royal heirs killed. The accounts in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles describe how the priest Jehoiada hid the child Joash, crowned him, and had Athaliah put to death in the ninth century BCE. A different Athaliah, a son of Jeroham, appears in a genealogy in 1 Chronicles. Because the biblical queen was remembered as a usurper, the name carried a heavy association for later readers.
The name has been rendered differently across languages and translations: Athaliah in English Bibles, Athalie in French (the title of Jean Racine's 1691 tragedy on the biblical queen), Atalia in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, and Atalya or Atalia in modern Hebrew. The spelling Ataliah reflects a transliteration in which the Hebrew letter tav is written as t rather than the traditional English th. In current use it functions as a variant of Athaliah, and the Hebrew form Atalya is an established given name in Israel.
How Popular is the Name Ataliah?
Ataliah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #11,059 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #11,059 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #12,282 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #16,554 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #15,490 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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