Altair — #4172 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Altair

The Social Security Administration has registered 229 babies named Altair between 2008 and 2024, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Altair currently holds the #4172 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Altair is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 168 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Altair performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Altair shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Altair in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Altair in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 229 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.