Boys' name · since 1998
Anatoly
43 babies named Anatoly in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #23,145 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,300 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 43
- born since 1998
- 2020s
- peak decade
Anatoly currently ranks #9300 among boys' names in America, with 43 babies recorded since 1998.
Anatoly has 43 recorded births among boys since 1998, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9300 as of the latest data, more common than 33% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1998 to 2025.
- #23,145 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #9,300 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 43 born since 1998
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Anatoly ranks #23,145 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,300 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 43 born since 1998, peaking in the 2020s.
- #23,145 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #9,300 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 43
- born since 1998
- 2020s
- peak decade
Anatoly's 43 recorded births place it above 48.79% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Anatoly compares
43 15th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Anatoly's all-time total is 88% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Anatoly | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 43 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 34 | 22,252 |
Anatoly's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Anatoly splits its recorded history at 2015: 63% of all births land in the more recent half, 37% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1998 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Anatoly popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Anatoly by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (21 births, 49% of the file).
2020s was Anatoly's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Anatoly births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 21 births (49% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1998–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Anatoly draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.