Athena
Athena stands at #109 nationally in 2025, right at the top of its own curve. First recorded 1902, best year 2022, 53,118 bearers across the whole run.
Athena’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Athena, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Athena since 1902
Athena peaked in 2022 at #78; #109 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Athena is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Athena runs strongest in Alaska at 1.03% in 2025, then Wyoming and New Mexico.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Athena
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Amara
#98 in 2025
Ariana
#128 in 2025
Alina
#130 in 2025
Amira
#132 in 2025
Alana
#140 in 2025
Addison
#84 in 2025
Alani
#161 in 2025
Ailani
#168 in 2025
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About Athena
How common is Athena today?
Athena stands at #109 nationally in 2025, right at the top of its own curve. The full curve since 1902 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Athena mean?
Athena postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
What names go with Athena?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Amara, Ariana and Alina, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Athena’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Athena earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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