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Anatoly

#8,956 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Anatoliy

Anatoly has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,956 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Anatoly, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anatoly: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Anatoliy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anatoly means

Anatoly is a alternate transcription of Anatoliy.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anatoliy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Anatoly between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #8,956 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,735 in 2015 to #8,956 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.

How common is Anatoly?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,956
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anatoly 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anatoly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anatolys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anatoly was born before 2015 — so the typical Anatoly is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Anatoly 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
+76
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,779
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,956
2025

Spellings of Anatoly

Anatoly is not the most common spelling — Antony is, with 99.6% against Anatoly's 0.40%.

  • Antony99.6%10,701
  • Anatoly0.40%43

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.

Anatoly around the world

Where Anatoly 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
    2021–2021
    #6,262
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1950–1997
    #543
    in 1997

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.

Anatoly by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,956
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,956
2025
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Anatoly

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

AnakynAnaghAnatoleAnaelAnabelAnaniaAnatoliyAnariAnanthAnaisAnaniAnaiahAnandaAnanAnansiAnahiAnaniasAnassAnatoliAnaiasAnastasiaAnaniyaAnacletoAnant

Sibling names for Anatoly

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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