Altay
Altay was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,617 among boys’ names; 65 Americans have been recorded with it since 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Altay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Altay mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Altay is “a male given name”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلتای (Altay).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Altay?
#5,617 among boys’ names, 2025
Altay rose from #10,713 in 2015 to #5,617 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 9.4 per million.
16 babies in 2025, the peak
Altay peaked in 2025, when 16 boys were given it, #5,617 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 7 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,617 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,949 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,883 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,932 | 3.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,348 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,713 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,753 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,865 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,823 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Altay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Altay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Altay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Altay, and how old are they?
An estimated 65 Americans named Altay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 657 babies since 1880, Altay is the second most given (9.9% of them).
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 Altay
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 Altay and names like it
- Compare Altay and AltoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAltay peaked in 2025.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Altay: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Altay.
- Names starting with AMost given first.