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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Athel

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

298

peak year 1917

More common than

77%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1917
15 births
Best rank
#1,936
in 1934
First recorded
1912
#2,062 that year
Last recorded
1952
no later published record
Average birth year
1927
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
31 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191715#1,995Peak
  2. 191815#2,080
  3. 191914#2,157
  4. 192314#2,233
  5. 193114#2,007

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,936 in 1934 · peak births 15 in 1917

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 89% boys■ 11% girls

298 boys · 36 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Athel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.