Atticus
Atticus was given to 1,208 boys in 2025, #281 among boys’ names; 18,443 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,300 Americans named Atticus 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 13.
Atticus came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1881 and returned in 2004.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atticus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Atticus mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Atticus is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen” (Atticus).
From Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attĭkós). Doublet of Attic.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Atticus?
#281 among boys’ names, 2025
Atticus rose from #347 in 2015 to #281 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.51 to 0.71 per 1,000.
1,321 babies in 2021, the peak
Atticus peaked in 2021, when 1,321 babies were given it (1,310 boys, #264 among boys’ names). The 1,217 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,208 | #281 | 0.71 |
| 2024 | 1,227 | #276 | 0.71 |
| 2023 | 1,187 | #284 | 0.69 |
| 2022 | 1,271 | #272 | 0.73 |
| 2021 | 1,310 | #264 | 0.75 |
| 2020 | 1,119 | #299 | 0.65 |
| 2019 | 1,096 | #309 | 0.61 |
| 2018 | 1,030 | #323 | 0.57 |
| 2017 | 959 | #350 | 0.52 |
| 2016 | 919 | #362 | 0.48 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 980 | #347 | 0.51 |
| 2014 | 855 | #369 | 0.45 |
| 2013 | 738 | #404 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 711 | #409 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 577 | #466 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 451 | #560 | 0.24 |
| 2009 | 422 | #608 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 348 | #688 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 346 | #685 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 270 | #769 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 245 | #791 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 181 | #933 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,186 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 106 | #1,278 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,426 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,425 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 60 | #1,719 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,640 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,130 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,328 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,507 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,143 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,221 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,865 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,027 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,253 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,148 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,641 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,161 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1881 | 5 | #874 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Atticus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Atticus has been given almost only to boys: 121 girls in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Atticus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atticus, and how old are they?
18,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 18,443 Americans ever recorded as Atticus. The median Atticus alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 10,453 people named Atticus (106 women and girls, 10,347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 35 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 244 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,900 |
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).
Where are babies named Atticus born?
The states with the most babies named Atticus are Texas, California and Washington, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 124 | #304 | 0.8× |
| California | 104 | #341 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 51 | #166 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 49 | #190 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 46 | #185 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 44 | #434 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 41 | #248 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 39 | #306 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 37 | #192 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 37 | #289 | 0.7× |
Where Atticus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Atticus is most over-represented in Idaho: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Atticus with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 18,722 babies since 1880, Atticus is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,217 of their 1,230 babies (99%), 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 Atticus
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 Atticus and names like it
- Compare Atticus and AttikusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAtticus peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Atticus since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Atticus: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Atticus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Atticus alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.