Atalaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-tah-LY-ah
- Origin
- Spanish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Atalaya is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “watchtower”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Atalaya mean?
Spanish: Spanish word, from Andalusian Arabic
“watchtower”
From the Spanish word for a watchtower, borrowed from Arabic in medieval Spain.
Is Atalaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Atalaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Atalaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,454among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Atalaya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2018, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.
Half of all the girls named Atalaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Atalaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,560 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,664 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,004 |
Names like Atalaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amaya Alaya Aaliyah Zaya Amira Safa Aliya Amoura Hadassah Zaniyah Safiya Zahara
Names related to Atalaya
More Spanish names
Santiago Lola Xavier Alaia Diego Rio Cruz Elian Jesus Ximena Javier Esmeralda Amayah Reina Cesar Sierra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Atalaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/atalaya, updated 20 October 2026.