Athena
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Athena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis.
- USUnited States1 in 10K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K
- GRGreece≈1 in 3.8Kas Athina
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Athena itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Αθηνα in GR Greece and Athina in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Athena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Athena | 24 |
| US United States | — | 32,200 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Athena | 407 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Athena | 86 |
| GR Greece | #287 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 161 | Αθηνα | 138 |
| CY Cyprus | #218 | 2,617as Αθηνα | 1 in 484 | 2.6K | Athina | 54 |
| HK Hong Kong | #536 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Athena | 31 |
| AL Albania | — | 883as Athina | 1 in 3.5K | 883 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Athena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Athena är ett grekiskt namn av oklart ursprung. I den grekiska mytologin var Athena bl.a. vishetens och fredens (samt det ordnade krigets) gudinna.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Greek goddess of wisdom
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, ) Athene: weibl. Vom. vorgrie chischen Ursprungs, der auf Athénë, die griechische Göttin der Weisheit, des Krieges und des Friedens, die Schutzherrin von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Atena.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, Athena (Greek goddess of wisdom)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Athina Rachel Tsangarib. 1966GRnot in their usual nameGreek film director, screenwriter and actress (born 1966)
- Athena Masseyb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Athena Chub. 1971CNHong Kong actress
- Athena Karkanisb. 1981CACanadian television actress
- Athina Rousselb. 1985FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Greek heiress
- Athina Oikonomakoub. 1986GRnot in their usual nameGreek actress and businessperson
- Athena Pleasuresb. 1986USAmerican pornographic actress
- Athena Manoukianb. 1994GRGreek singer
- Athena of Monpezatb. 2012DKDanish former princess; daughter of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark
- Athena DroutisGBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32K | #1,207 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 43 | #1,207 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Athena come from?
- The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Athena a male or female name?
- Athena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Athena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,200 people named Athena in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Athena compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Athena is the 218th most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Athena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Athena in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled athena.
- What are other forms of the name Athena?
- In the etymology graph, Athina, Atenea and Afina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Athena mean?
- Recorded meaning: The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis.
What do you want to know about Athena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/athenaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Athena” — the 218th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.