Altai

#10,757 in 2025Boys' name

Gold + mountain

Altai has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #10,757 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Altai, 2025

1 in 553,000

Altai over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Altai: meaning, origin, and history

Gold + mountain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Altai means

Altai means “gold + mountain”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Altai between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,948 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Altai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 553,000; 6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #10,757; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 382,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Altai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Altai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Altais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Altai was born before 2024 — so the typical Altai is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 13; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Altai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −809; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 85.7%; Peak was 2024 (7)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,948; 2024

Spellings of Altai

Altai is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 63.1% against Altai's <0.01%.

Alan63.1%363,313
Allan16.8%96,458
Alton8.2%47,457
Ali6.0%34,383
Alva2.0%11,269
Alain0.69%3,980
Tai0.54%3,122
Alma0.39%2,219

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Altai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #10,757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #9,948; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 7 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 13
Count in 2025: 6

Names similar to Altai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Altaf Alteo Alten Altie Altay Altha Ittai Altan Nitai Althea Altus Altonia Alter Fatai Atai Alterick Altair Altin Altarik Alterik Katai Alta Kahtai Amittai

Sibling names for Altai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Leonor Sydnie Karleigh Rhianna Keren Kendyl Sydni Hayleigh

For a brother

Kale Evans Hamilton Aaden Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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