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Anatol

Boys' name

Sunrise

Anatol has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Anatol, 1920

1 in 453,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anatol: meaning, origin, and history

Sunrise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anatol means

Anatol means “sunrise”, associated with anatolḗ.

Origin, language, and formation

Anatol is used in Czech, German and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anatole.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Anatol is pronounced [ˈanatol].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Anatol between 1920 and 1920. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1920; its best national rank was #4,313 in 1920.

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 Anatol?

Anatol had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1920, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1920
1 in 453,000
5 of 2,262,602 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1920
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
313,664 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anatol 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 1920 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 313,664 children born in 1920 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anatol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anatols were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anatol was born before 1920 — so the typical Anatol is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Anatol 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (5)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,313
1920

Spellings of Anatol

Anatol is not the most common spelling — Anton is, with 100.0% against Anatol's 0.02%.

  • Anton100.0%23,915
  • Anatol0.02%5

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.

Anatol around the world

Where Anatol 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.

  • France
    1991–2024
    #6,229
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anatol by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,313
1920
Peak year
1920
5 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1920
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anatol

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

AnanyaAnakenAnajeeAnaniAnaniyaAnaiasAnatoliAnansiAnakynAnaiahAnatolyAnaghAnaluAnabelAnaelAnaniaAnassAnahiAnariAnanthAnaisBrystolAnandaAnan

Sibling names for Anatol

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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