Anatole

#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births

Peak · boys
1889 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
204
since 1889

Anatole over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Anatole has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201889peak #974, 1889boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#12,0085
2024
2023
2022#10,8636
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016#10,7446
2015
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2007#12,3675
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1995#8,8685
1994
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1991#8,2365
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1979#4,4038
1978
1977#5,8455
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1963#3,3187
1962
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1958#3,5596
1957
1956#3,9425
1955
1954#2,9428
1953#2,9058
1952
1951#3,0667
1950
1949#3,0197
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1935#3,2526
1934
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1932#3,7765
1931
1930#3,2897
1929
1928#3,0768
1927#3,4517
1926#4,2015
1925#3,7416
1924#2,64111
1923#3,4677
1922#3,5327
1921
1920#3,8156
1919
1918#2,54311
1917#3,5456
1916#2,9268
1915#3,3926
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1889#9745
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five boys were named Anatole! It came in at #974, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Anatole
Momentum · boys
Brand new
    Rise & fade · boys
    Peaked on debut
    • Debuted 1889
    • Peaked 1889 at #974 (5 births)
    • Births halved by 1890, 1 yr later
    Top of the charts · boys
    Top 1,000 for 1 yr
    • Top 10: never
    • Top 100: never
    • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1889
    Share of babies · boys
    1 in 22,116
    • Highest: 1 in 22,116 boys born in 1889 were named Anatole (0.00%)
    • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
    Era · boys
    The 1920s
    • 27.9% of all boys named Anatole (57) were born in this decade
    Show by decade
    DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
    1880s5#974 (1889)#974
    1890s0
    1900s0
    1910s31#2,543 (1918)#3,102
    1920s57#2,641 (1924)#3,491
    1930s18#3,252 (1935)#3,439
    1940s7#3,019 (1949)#3,019
    1950s34#2,905 (1953)#3,283
    1960s7#3,318 (1963)#3,318
    1970s13#4,403 (1979)#5,124
    1980s0
    1990s10#8,236 (1991)#8,552
    2000s5#12,367 (2007)#12,367
    2010s6#10,744 (2016)#10,744
    2020s11#10,863 (2022)#11,436

    All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

    Anatole in 1889

    boys
    #974
    5 births · 1 in 22,116 boys

    Top boys' names in 1889

    1. #1John8,548
    2. #2William7,772
    3. #3James5,020
    4. #4George4,430
    5. #5Charles4,199
    6. #6Frank2,975
    7. #7Joseph2,729
    8. #8Harry2,559
    9. #9Robert2,513
    10. #10Edward2,299
    11. #974Anatole5
    More about 1889

    boys

    110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 22,116 of them was named Anatole, which outranked 12.3% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

    Ranked beside Anatole
    1. #878Williams6
    2. #878Winford6
    3. #878Wright6
    4. #974Anatole5
    5. #974Abie5
    6. #974Alphonsus5
    7. #974Alta5

    Tied with 137 names at #974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

    Biggest movers since 1888
    Risers
    1. 506Connie#1,031#525
    2. 483Hamilton#917#434
    3. 482Ballard#1,031#549
    4. 453Bertie#917#464
    5. 450Essie#1,031#581
    Fallers
    1. 510Wendell#464#974
    2. 469Melton#505#974
    3. 462Enos#416#878
    4. 394Ruby#580#974
    5. 394Webb#580#974

    Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

    See the top 100 for 1889