Atlanta
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in England and Wales.
Atlanta by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Atlanta. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 37 babies in 1995, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Atlanta
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Atlanta. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Atalantaequal in weight; mighty huntress in Greek myth3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alanafair, bright; feminine form of Alan1,432 in the US (2017)
- Alannafair; beautiful; a form of Alana563 in the US (2017)
- Allanafair, beautiful; a form of Alana65 in the US (2017)
- Alaniavariant of Alania or Alana, fair or bright32 in the US (2017)
- Ailanabright, fair; feminine form of alan20 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Atlanta
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