Given name · also Latin
Atena
Atena is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Romanian and Indonesian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Atena comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Indonesian usage, Atena developed from Ἀθηνᾶ.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Atena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 10 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 214 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Atena’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Atena developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀθηνᾶ. In Polish usage, Atena has a conventional equivalent in the French form Athina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Atena
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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