Atticus
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #281 for boys in 2025, 1,208 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 1,310 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,322since 1881
Atticus over time
Rank among boys' names. Atticus has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #281 | 1,208 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #276 | 1,227 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #284 | 1,187 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #272 | 1,271 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #264 | 1,310 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #299 | 1,119 |
| 2019 | — | #309 | 1,096 | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #323 | 1,030 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #350 | 959 |
| 2016 | — | #362 | 919 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #347 | 980 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #369 | 855 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #404 | 738 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #409 | 711 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #466 | 577 |
| 2010 | — | #560 | 451 | |
| 2009 | — | #608 | 422 | |
| 2008 | — | #688 | 348 | |
| 2007 | — | #685 | 346 | |
| 2006 | — | #769 | 270 | |
| 2005 | — | #791 | 245 | |
| 2004 | — | #934 | 181 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,187 | 125 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,281 | 106 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,429 | 87 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,429 | 86 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,720 | 60 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,126 | 41 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,332 | 34 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,988 | 42 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,502 | 30 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,224 | 19 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,865 | 22 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Atticus! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Atticus
- 5 spots since 2024 (#276 → #281)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#299 → #281)
- 66 spots since 2015 (#347 → #281)
- Biggest jump: 253 spots in 2004 (#1,187 → #934)
- Biggest drop: 15 spots in 2016 (#347 → #362)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 2021 at #264 (1,310 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,335 boys born in 2021 were named Atticus (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,414 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 45.4% of all boys named Atticus (8,316) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #866 (1881) | #866 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 5 | #2,544 (1912) | #2,544 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,595 |
| 1970s | 32 | #3,146 (1971) | #4,626 |
| 1980s | 63 | #3,630 (1983) | #4,737 |
| 1990s | 356 | #1,642 (1998) | #2,437 |
| 2000s | 2,216 | #608 (2009) | #980 |
| 2010s | 8,316 | #309 (2019) | #390 |
| 2020s | 7,322 | #264 (2021) | #279 |
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.
Atticus in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 22,837 of them was named Atticus, which outranked 88.2% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,420Tory87
- #1,420Tyrin87
- #1,420Vince87
- #1,429Atticus86
- #1,429Aurelio86
- #1,429Brantley86
- #1,429Case86
- #1,448Bradyn85
- #1,448Christofer85
- #1,448Eloy85
Tied with 18 names at #1,429; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.