Altan
Altan was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,824 among boys’ names; 145 Americans have been recorded with it since 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Altan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Altan mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Altan is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Altan?
#6,824 among boys’ names, 2025
Altan rose from #8,777 in 2015 to #6,824 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 7.0 per million.
14 babies in 2016, the peak
Altan peaked in 2016, when 14 boys were given it, #6,057 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,824 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,477 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,293 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,877 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,615 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,661 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,195 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,854 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,571 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,057 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #8,777 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,817 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,043 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,864 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,822 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,054 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Altan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Altan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Altan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Altan, and how old are they?
An estimated 144 Americans named Altan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Altan (11 women and girls, 223 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 89 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 48,294 babies since 1880, Altan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 118 babies (10%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Altan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Altan and names like it
- Compare Altan and AltonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAltan peaked in 2016.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Altan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Altan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Altan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.