Atlas — #101 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Atlas

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,457 babies named Atlas between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Atlas currently holds the #101 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 3,417 babies received it in a single year. Atlas is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,185 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Atlas performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 14,144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Atlas shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,113 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Atlas in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Atlas 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 21,457 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.