girls:
1k births since 1910
#4690 (18th percentile)
boys:
18k births since 1883
#857 (81st percentile)
overall:
19k births since 1883
#1859 (76th percentile)
The name Atlas is the #1,859 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,045 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 76.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #857 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 18,019 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #4,690 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 1,026 births since 1910.
Atlas first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1910 for girls). Birth data for Atlas is available in 103 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (102 years for boys and 27 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Atlas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Atlas reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 88.1% percentile (ranked #109) with 1,746 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,746 births per million (ranked 88.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Atlas is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #109 (88.1% percentile) with 1,746 births per million.
For girls, Atlas reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 19.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 105 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 105 births per million (ranked 19.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Atlas ranks #792 for girls (16.4% percentile) with 91 births per million, which is 86.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Atlas".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Atlas is pronounced as AT-luhs, which has 2 syllables.
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