Athena is a female given name of Greek origin, especially in reference to the Greco-Roman goddess Athena. The name has been among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States since the mid-1950s and was the 78th most popular name for newborn American girls in 2022. It has been one of the 500 most popular names for girls in England and Wales since 2012 and in France since 2018. It has also been well-used in recent years in Canada, Iceland, and New Zealand. The popularity of mythological names also increased in use for babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic.
People with this given name include:
Persons
Stagenamed "Athena"
Athena the Gladiator, stagename of Karenjeet Kaur Bains
Athena Andreadis, aka Athena, an Anglo-Greek musician
Athena Tibi, aka Athena, a Filipino singer & actress based in Japan
Athena (wrestler), ringname of U.S. pro-wrestler Adrienne Reese
Given named "Athena"
Athena Aktipis, U.S. psychologist
Athena Andreadis, an Anglo-Greek musician
Athena Cage (born 1970), U.S. singer
Athena Chu (born 1971), Hongkong actress
Athena Coustenis (born 1961), French astrophysicist
Athena Farrokhzad (born 1983), Iranian Swedish poet-playwright
Athena Finger, heir to cartoonist Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman
Athena Marguerite Françoise Marie Glücksburg, Princess Athena of Denmark (born 2012)
Athena Imperial (born 1987), Filipina journalist
Athena Karkanis (born 1981), Canadian actress
Athena Keen, former instructor at the American School of Ballet
Athena King, former journalist for the Naked News
Athena Kugblenu, British stand-up comedian and writer
Athena LaTocha, Lakota Amerindian artist
Athena Lee (markswoman), Philippine-American competition shooter
Athena Lee Atkins Kottak Bass (born 1964), U.S. musician
Athéna Locatelli (born 1991), French ice hockey player
Athena Loizides (born 1965), Greek Cypriot TV personality
Athena Lundberg (born 1986), PMOM January 2006
Athena McNinch (born 1997), Guamanian-Taiwanese pageant queen
Athena Manoukian (born 1994), Greek-Armenian singer
Athena Michailidou (1918–2001), Greek actress
Athena Papas, U.S. dental scholar
Athena Reich, Canadian-American actress
Athena Salman, U.S. politician
Athena Sefat, U.S. physicist
Athena Starwoman (1945–2004), Australian psychic
Athena Tacha (born 1936), Greek artist
Athena Tibi (born 1988), Filipina singer and actress based in Japan
Athena Xenidou, Cypriot writer-director
Athena Lee Yen (born 1981), Taiwanese actress
Athina Markopoulou, Greek-American engineer
Mythological
Athena (Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ), Greco-Roman goddess
Minerva, Roman equivalent, sometimes called Athena
Pallas Athena, aspect
Athena Alea, Greek aspect
Athena Areia, Greek aspect
Athena Alkidemos, Greek aspect
Fictional characters
Athena, a mascot for the 2004 Summer Olympics, one of the trio of Athena, Phevos and Proteas
Athena (DC Comics), a DC Comics character and member of the Olympian Gods
Athena (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character and member of the Olympian Gods
Thena, another Marvel Comics character who has gone by the name Athena, a member of the Eternals
Athena, an Image Comics character, Lily Nalin, and member of Bloodstrike
Athena, an owl character from the Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty TV series
Athena (The Little Mermaid), Princess Ariel's mother in the Disney franchise
Athena, a Marvel UK character and member of the Warheads
Princess Athena, main character of the 1986 SNK video game Athena
Athena Asamiya, a character in the video game Psycho Soldier and The King of Fighters series, described as a descendant of Princess Athena of the 1986 video game Athena
Athena, the first opponent of Godou Kusanagi in the manga/anime Campione!
"Athena", a codename for character Dana Mercer, a sister of protagonist of [PROTOTYPE]
Athena (Stargate), a Goa'uld in the TV series Stargate SG-1
Athena the Gladiator, an important character from the Borderlands video game series
Lieutenant Athena, a bridge officer in the 1978–79 television series Battlestar Galactica
Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica), a Humanoid Cylon, with multiple copies, in the 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica, one of whom is Sharon "Athena" Agathon.
Athena, an important character in the Sony PlayStation 2 game God of War
Athena Cykes, a defense attorney from the Ace Attorney franchise
Athena Glory, a character from the animanga Aria
Athena Grant, LAPD sergeant on the TV series 9-1-1
Athena Morrow, a character on the TV series Hvmans
Athena Tennousu, a character in the manga/anime Hayate the Combat Butler and the eponymous protagonist's first true love
Athena, a sentient artificial intelligence and a legal person in Sunstorm science fiction novel co-written by British writers Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter