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Atal

#6,845 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Atal has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #6,845 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Atal, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atal: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Atal means

Atal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Atal is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 boys were recorded with the name Atal between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,845 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 Atal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,845
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atal 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atal was born before 2023 — so the typical Atal is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
87.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 87.5% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Atal 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
+3,158
Places climbed
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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (12)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,845
2025

Spellings of Atal

Atal is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 41.4% against Atal'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.

Atal around the world

Where Atal 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
    2010–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #3,688
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018

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.

Atal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,845
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,845
2025
Peak year
2025
12 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Atal

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

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Sibling names for Atal

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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