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Altan

#6,824 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Altan has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #6,824 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Altan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Altan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Altan: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Altan means

Altan has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Altan

One of the source’s documented entries for Altan records a meaning of red dawn.

One of the source’s documented entries for Altan records a meaning of golden.

Origin, language, and formation

Altan is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 145 boys were recorded with the name Altan between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,057 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,661 in 2020 to #6,824 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,777 in 2015 to #6,824 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Altan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,824
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Altan 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Altan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Altans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Altan was born before 2018 — so the typical Altan is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
145
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Altan 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
−347
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,837
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,953
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2016 (14)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,057
2016

Spellings of Altan

Altan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 24.6% against Altan's <0.01%.

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.

Altan around the world

Where Altan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1975–2024
    #3,873
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2015–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Altan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,824
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,837
Best rank ever
#6,057
2016
Peak year
2016
14 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
145
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Altan

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

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Sibling names for Altan

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

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