Atai

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Atai has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2016, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Atai, 2024

1 in 669,000

Atai over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atai: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atai means

Atai is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Atai is used in Tsou.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Atai between 2016 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2016; its best national rank was #9,754 in 2016.

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.

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How common is Atai?

Atai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Atai 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atais were born

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

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 61.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 61.1% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Atai 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2016 (7)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,754; 2016

Spellings of Atai

Atai is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 43.9% against Atai's <0.01%.

Adam43.9%580,378
Alan27.5%363,313
Kai5.3%70,232
Ali2.6%34,383
Amari2.4%31,994
Adan2.4%31,478
Atlas2.0%25,893
Asa1.6%21,166

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.

Atai 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: —
Best rank ever: #9,754; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 7 that year
First recorded: 2016
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 18
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Atai

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

Atal Altai Atari Ittai Nitai Atahan Ata Atavion Etai Atakan Katai Fatai Itai Kitai Dontai Amitai Matai Kahtai Amittai Davontai Keontai Deontai Devontai Javontai

Sibling names for Atai

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

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Henley Raylee Harleigh Galilea

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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