Atlas
Atlas stands at #75 nationally in 2025, and rising year over year. It has been on the books since 1883 and never mattered more than it does today; 25,893 bearers and counting.
Atlas’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Atlas, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Atlas since 1883
Atlas is at its all-time peak right now: #75 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Atlas is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Atlas runs strongest in Hawaii at 1.06% in 2025, then Alaska and West Virginia.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Atlas
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Ayla
#77 in 2025
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Adriel
#84 in 2025
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Archer
#98 in 2025
Aaliyah
#101 in 2025
Amir
#105 in 2025
Browse: names starting with A · all names
About Atlas
How common is Atlas today?
Atlas stands at #75 nationally in 2025, and rising year over year. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1883.
Does Atlas have a meaning on record?
Atlas postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
Is there a sibling name for Atlas?
Nearest by the published recipe: Ayla, Axel and August. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Atlas’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Atlas earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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