girls:
687 births since 1895
#5029 (12th percentile)
overall:
687 births since 1895
#7052 (9th percentile)
The name Atlanta is the #7,052 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 687 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 8.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,029 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 687 births since 1895.
Atlanta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (first recorded for girls in 1895). Birth data for Atlanta is available in 54 out of the 128 years between 1895 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Atlanta reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #817) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Atlanta".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Atlanta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.1% confident that Atlanta is pronounced as uht-LAN-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is at-LAN-tuh, at 41.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 T L AE1 N T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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