Aathira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-thee-rah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Aathira is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “the star Ardra”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Aathira mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Athira; Malayalam form of Ardra (Thiruvathira)
“the star Ardra”
Malayalam form of Ardra, the lunar mansion celebrated in Kerala's Thiruvathira festival.
Meaning borrowed from Athira.
Is Aathira a girl's or a boy's name?
Aathira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aathira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,344among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 167% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Aathira, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Aathira of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Aathira in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Aathira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
- Aathira 12
- Athira 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Aathira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
Names like Aathira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anvika Akshara Aadhya Avira Divisha Aaradhya Varnika Advika Viha Arya Vihana Prisha
Other spellings of Aathira
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Avyaan Ishaan Siya Leena Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aathira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aathira, updated 20 October 2026.