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Anatoli

Boys' name

Sunrise

Anatoli has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2009, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Anatoli, 2009

1 in 637,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anatoli: meaning, origin, and history

Sunrise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anatoli means

Anatoli means “sunrise”, associated with anatolḗ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Russian Анато́лий (Anatólij), from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Anatoli (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Anatoli is used in English and Azerbaijani.

Anatoli comes through Ancient Greek ἀνατολή.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Анато́лий, Anatole and Anatolius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Anatoli is pronounced /æ.nəˈtɑ.li/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Anatoli between 2009 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #11,070 in 2009.

How common is Anatoli?

Anatoli had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 331,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anatoli 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 2009 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 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anatoli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anatolis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anatoli was born before 2009 — so the typical Anatoli is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Anatoli 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 2009 (6)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,070
2009

Spellings of Anatoli

Anatoli is not the most common spelling — Antoni is, with 99.7% against Anatoli's 0.25%.

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.

Anatoli around the world

Where Anatoli 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
    2005–2023
    #5,495
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1951–1987
    #464
    in 1987

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.

Anatoli 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
#11,070
2009
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anatoli

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

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Sibling names for Anatoli

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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