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Altay

#5,617 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Altai

Altay has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #5,617 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Altay, 2025

1 in 207,000

Altay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Altay: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Altai

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Altay means

Altay is a form of Altai.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Altay → Altai. The family’s meaning is “gold + mountain”, recorded in the naming reference for Altai.

Origin, language, and formation

Altay is used in Azerbaijani and Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Altai.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 boys were recorded with the name Altay between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,617 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,713 in 2015 to #5,617 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 Altay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,617
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Altay 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Altay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Altays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Altay was born before 2022 — so the typical Altay is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
65
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Altay 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
+4,332
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,096
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (16)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,617
2025

Spellings of Altay

Altay is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 62.9% against Altay'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.

Altay around the world

Where Altay 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
    2007–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #1,730
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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.

Altay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,617
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,617
2025
Peak year
2025
16 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Altay

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

AltanAltusAltaiAlterAltairAltinAlthaAltaAltafAlteoItayAltenAltieAltonioTayAltariqDantayQuantayJontayAltoJohntayKeontayAltheaMartay

Sibling names for Altay

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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