Meaning not yet researched.
Atlas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 4,413 in 2025. Its best rank was #75 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Atlas in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#75 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Atlas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 4,413 boys in 2025. Peak: #75 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 4,413 (2025).
In 2025, 4,413 US boys were named Atlas, making it the 75th most common boys’ name of the year, up 26 places from #101 in 2024. That is 980 more than the 3,433 boys named Atlas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #75, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,413. For comparison, it was #487 in 2015 and #3,345 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Atlas in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 27,226 US babies have been given the name, 4.9% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 19,523 babies named Atlas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23,296 US boys were named Atlas; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 4,413. In 2025 that was about 1 in 387 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Atlas ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #11 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 40 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Atlus, Atlys and Atlis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Atlus (126), Atlys (60), Atlis (40), Atlyss (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Atlas in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 31 | #11 | #278 |
| West Virginia | 46 | #20 | — |
| Utah | 100 | #31 | #306 |
| Alaska | 17 | #33 | #149 |
| Idaho | 45 | #39 | — |
| Missouri | 128 | #42 | #293 |
| Kansas | 67 | #42 | #422 |
| Oklahoma | 77 | #43 | #414 |
| Nevada | 52 | #44 | #364 |
| North Dakota | 20 | #44 | — |
| Arizona | 132 | #46 | #333 |
| Kentucky | 85 | #47 | #431 |
| Iowa | 58 | #51 | #568 |
| Colorado | 108 | #51 | #380 |
| Arkansas | 52 | #52 | #430 |
| Florida | 359 | #53 | #457 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #55 | — |
| Nebraska | 38 | #56 | #389 |
| Indiana | 118 | #57 | #423 |
| Tennessee | 130 | #58 | #522 |
| Ohio | 180 | #58 | #688 |
| Oregon | 58 | #59 | #343 |
| Washington | 115 | #61 | #309 |
| South Dakota | 17 | #64 | — |
| Mississippi | 36 | #64 | — |
| North Carolina | 176 | #65 | #369 |
| Michigan | 130 | #68 | #366 |
| New Mexico | 24 | #72 | — |
| Wisconsin | 74 | #74 | #608 |
| Louisiana | 59 | #75 | #580 |
| Delaware | 13 | #76 | — |
| Georgia | 144 | #76 | #793 |
| Virginia | 114 | #76 | #411 |
| Maine | 16 | #76 | — |
| Montana | 15 | #76 | #243 |
| Alabama | 63 | #77 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 152 | #80 | #556 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | #84 | — |
| South Carolina | 52 | #99 | #665 |
| Texas | 398 | #100 | #516 |
| California | 398 | #103 | #426 |
| Illinois | 111 | #107 | #749 |
| Maryland | 52 | #108 | #794 |
| New York | 149 | #124 | #772 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | #126 | — |
| New Jersey | 63 | #157 | #981 |
| Minnesota | 42 | #157 | #429 |
| Connecticut | 21 | #165 | #392 |
| Massachusetts | 34 | #188 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145 | #1,478 | 4,413 | #75 |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,406 | 3,433 | #101 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,379 | 3,211 | #111 |
| 2022 | 165 | #1,388 | 2,916 | #130 |
| 2021 | 189 | #1,242 | 2,549 | #147 |
| 2020 | 126 | #1,644 | 2,054 | #188 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,233 | 1,659 | #226 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,715 | 1,219 | #289 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,927 | 1,042 | #329 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,013 | 800 | #398 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,603 | 603 | #487 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,016 | 411 | #639 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,346 | 288 | #780 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,679 | 121 | #1,383 |
| 2011 | — | — | 109 | #1,486 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,575 |
| 2009 | — | — | 63 | #2,144 |
| 2008 | — | — | 55 | #2,348 |
| 2007 | — | — | 35 | #3,191 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,695 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,838 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,275 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,908 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,423 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,587 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,496 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,581 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,178 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,342 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,562 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,874 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,888 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,467 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,552 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,204 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,274 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,802 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,608 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,315 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,684 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #4,995 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,165 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,113 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,910 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,532 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,677 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,162 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,007 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,061 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,671 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,908 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,361 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,302 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,580 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,558 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #2,958 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,449 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,526 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,345 |
| 1949 | — | — | 13 | #2,130 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,226 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,679 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,277 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,759 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,881 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,288 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,240 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,669 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,160 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,136 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,492 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,092 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,463 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,403 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,331 | 9 | #2,572 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,265 | 10 | #2,378 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,391 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,408 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,605 | 18 | #1,759 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,002 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,402 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,206 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,476 | 14 | #2,201 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,140 | 15 | #2,137 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,127 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,691 | 21 | #1,700 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,176 | 18 | #1,910 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,035 | 15 | #2,141 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,486 | 16 | #1,979 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,768 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,118 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,287 | 17 | #1,775 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,825 | 9 | #2,640 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,783 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,350 | 10 | #1,812 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,441 | 8 | #1,204 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,070 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,015 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #893 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #901 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).