Atley
Atley is given to both girls and boys: 76 girls and 54 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,368 among girls’ names and #2,485 among boys’, #2,959 among all names counting both); 1,560 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Atley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Atley?
#2,368 among girls’ names, 2025
Atley rose from #3,258 in 2015 to #2,368 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 47.3 per million.
130 babies in 2025, the peak
Atley peaked in 2025, when 130 babies were given it (76 girls, #2,368 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 46 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,368 | 54 | #2,485 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,402 | 23 | #4,449 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,894 | 25 | #4,232 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,862 | 29 | #3,778 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,623 | 28 | #3,819 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,753 | 26 | #3,925 |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,274 | 25 | #4,118 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,621 | 21 | #4,611 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,200 | 30 | #3,590 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,789 | 18 | #5,143 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,258 | 33 | #3,371 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,185 | 26 | #3,904 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,340 | 30 | #3,503 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,616 | 37 | #3,061 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,076 | 44 | #2,703 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,875 | 29 | #3,641 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,124 | 17 | #5,347 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,032 | 29 | #3,650 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,853 | 14 | #5,929 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,782 | 20 | #4,526 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,559 | 11 | #6,675 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,994 | 17 | #4,810 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,119 | 16 | #4,828 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,352 | 9 | #7,086 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,196 | 9 | #6,971 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,642 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #8,784 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #3,834 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,245 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,245 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #3,894 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,335 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,120 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Atley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,560 Americans recorded as Atley, 58% are girls and 42% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Atley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atley, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,560 Americans ever recorded as Atley. The median Atley alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,074 people named Atley (570 women and girls, 504 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,018 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,617 babies since 1880, Atley is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 130 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Atley
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 Atley and names like it
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