Meaning not yet researched.
Atticus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,208 in 2025. Its best rank was #264 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #264 in 2021; #281 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Atticus in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#281 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #264.
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Atticus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,208 boys in 2025. Peak: #264 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 1,310 (2021).
In 2025, 1,208 US boys were named Atticus, making it the 281st most common boys’ name of the year, down 5 places from #276 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 1,227 boys named Atticus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #264, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,310. For comparison, it was #347 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Atticus in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 18,443 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,380 babies named Atticus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,326 US boys were named Atticus; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 1,310. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,414 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Atticus ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #86 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Attikus and Attycus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Attikus (279), Attycus (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 Atticus 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 9 | #86 | #150 |
| West Virginia | 16 | #121 | — |
| Oklahoma | 37 | #124 | #216 |
| Kansas | 27 | #138 | #246 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #141 | #268 |
| Idaho | 18 | #150 | #181 |
| Maine | 8 | #152 | #219 |
| Washington | 51 | #166 | #230 |
| Montana | 7 | #173 | #208 |
| Nebraska | 15 | #179 | #435 |
| Indiana | 46 | #185 | #256 |
| Tennessee | 49 | #190 | #307 |
| Missouri | 37 | #192 | #272 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #193 | #248 |
| Kentucky | 28 | #199 | #247 |
| Nevada | 15 | #203 | #334 |
| Utah | 23 | #226 | #259 |
| Colorado | 28 | #229 | #231 |
| Oregon | 18 | #230 | #182 |
| New Mexico | 8 | #237 | #236 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #237 | #226 |
| Michigan | 41 | #248 | #405 |
| Iowa | 15 | #258 | #317 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #260 | #475 |
| Virginia | 33 | #262 | #361 |
| Wisconsin | 22 | #262 | #300 |
| Illinois | 37 | #289 | #375 |
| Alabama | 18 | #301 | #447 |
| Texas | 124 | #304 | #382 |
| Ohio | 39 | #306 | #354 |
| Arizona | 25 | #308 | #490 |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | #312 | #378 |
| California | 104 | #341 | #315 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #348 | #591 |
| North Carolina | 32 | #357 | #307 |
| Georgia | 31 | #375 | #352 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #376 | #581 |
| Maryland | 13 | #390 | #530 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #393 | #387 |
| Florida | 44 | #434 | #433 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #513 | #325 |
| New York | 30 | #529 | #574 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #931 | #480 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,207 | 1,208 | #281 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,326 | 1,227 | #276 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,546 | 1,187 | #284 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,496 | 1,271 | #272 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,046 | 1,310 | #264 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,355 | 1,119 | #299 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,096 | #309 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,541 | 1,030 | #323 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,845 | 959 | #350 |
| 2016 | — | — | 919 | #362 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,765 | 980 | #347 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,088 | 855 | #369 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,131 | 738 | #404 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,390 | 711 | #409 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,542 | 577 | #466 |
| 2010 | — | — | 451 | #560 |
| 2009 | — | — | 422 | #608 |
| 2008 | — | — | 348 | #688 |
| 2007 | — | — | 346 | #685 |
| 2006 | — | — | 270 | #769 |
| 2005 | — | — | 245 | #791 |
| 2004 | — | — | 181 | #934 |
| 2003 | — | — | 125 | #1,187 |
| 2002 | — | — | 106 | #1,281 |
| 2001 | — | — | 87 | #1,430 |
| 2000 | — | — | 86 | #1,429 |
| 1999 | — | — | 60 | #1,722 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,643 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,133 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,333 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #1,989 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,512 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,149 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,841 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,227 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,871 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,033 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,232 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,260 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,152 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,616 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,642 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,447 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,659 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,358 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,159 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,045 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,163 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,616 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,572 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #875 |
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).