Meaning not yet researched.
Atom: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,051 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,051 in 2017; #3,384 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Atom in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,384 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,051.
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Atom: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,051 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 68 (2017).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Atom, making it the 3,384th most common boys’ name of the year, down 216 places from #3,168 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 38 boys named Atom in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,051, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #2,531 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Atom in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 1,057 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 515 babies named Atom.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 492 US boys were named Atom; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Autum (3,311 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Atiim 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Atiim (19).
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 Atom in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 34 | #3,384 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,168 |
| 2023 | — | — | 34 | #3,425 |
| 2022 | — | — | 57 | #2,441 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,248 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,549 |
| 2019 | — | — | 56 | #2,397 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,236 |
| 2017 | — | — | 68 | #2,051 |
| 2016 | — | — | 58 | #2,279 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,531 |
| 2014 | — | — | 49 | #2,518 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,229 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,418 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,240 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,538 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,404 |
| 2008 | — | — | 28 | #3,746 |
| 2007 | — | — | 18 | #5,011 |
| 2006 | — | — | 19 | #4,696 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,682 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,268 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,290 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,094 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,409 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #5,954 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,079 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,744 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,662 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,630 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,875 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #8,889 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,535 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,310 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,284 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,369 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,071 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,317 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #3,985 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,404 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,911 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,464 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,533 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,266 |
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).