Fun Facts About the Name Atina
- 245 babies named Atina: U.S. records list 245 babies given the name Atina from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Atina Mean?
Atina is a feminine given name used mainly in the Balkans. Its most transparent source is the Greek name for Athens - ancient Athēnai, Modern Greek Athína - which appears in Albanian and in Ottoman Turkish as Atina. Read this way, the name means "of Athens" or "from Athens."
The meaning behind the city name itself is not securely known. Athens is generally treated as a pre-Greek place name, and the explanations offered in antiquity - a link to anthos, "flower," or to the name of the goddess Athena - are traditional guesses rather than settled etymology. Interpretations such as "wise" belong to Athena's later attributes, not to the literal sense of the word.
Athena, Athina, and Atina are linked in this civic sense, but similar-looking names should not be assumed to share an origin: the Italian town of Atina in Lazio, an old Volscian settlement, carries a separate Latin place name.
Atina Name History & Origins
Atina came into use as a personal name through a place name, not through an ancient personal name. In Albanian, Atina is the ordinary word for Athens, and the same form was standard in Ottoman Turkish; Albanian speakers who gave the name to daughters were drawing on the city, much as Greeks use Athína for both the goddess and the capital. As a given name it belongs chiefly to Albanian usage.
The Greek name was plural - Athēnai, like Thēbai (Thebes) and Mykēnai (Mycenae) - and Latin kept the plural in Athenae. The later, singular Greek form Athína dropped the -e- of the ending, and it is this form that lies behind Turkish and Albanian Atina. Personal names built on the same root took other shapes in antiquity, such as Athenais, borne by the fifth-century empress Eudocia before her marriage, and compounds like Athenodoros.
How Popular is the Name Atina?
Atina 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 1976. Its best rank was #4,641 in 1976.
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 | #10,206 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #8,531 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2022 | #9,129 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #14,005 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #14,569 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #14,811 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2008 | #17,867 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #17,479 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #16,808 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2004 | #14,410 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #15,726 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #14,381 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #13,488 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #10,305 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #8,829 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1988 | #10,479 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #9,941 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #8,608 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1985 | #7,617 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #6,257 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1982 | #6,396 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1981 | #7,451 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1980 | #7,469 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1979 | #6,733 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1978 | #5,989 | 10 | 0.0007% |
| 1977 | #8,523 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1976 | #4,641 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1975 | #9,180 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1974 | #8,871 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1972 | #4,805 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1971 | #8,423 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1969 | #6,680 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1966 | #5,848 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1962 | #6,639 | 5 | 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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