Atlas

Where Atlas comes from

Atlas hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #892 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1913
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1942
    Atlas Ramachandran born
    Indian businessman and actor
  4. 1982
    Atlas Saarikoski born
    Finnish journalist and activist
  5. 2025
    Peak, #75
    4,413 babies named Atlas — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Atlas Saarikoski · Finnish journalist and activist, born 1982
  • Atlas Ramachandran · Indian businessman and actor, 1942–2022
  • Atlas Crusius · mayor of Chemnitz, 1606–1679

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.