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Atif

Boys' name

To incline, to sympathize, through عَاطِف

Atif has been given to 487 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1981, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Atif, 2023

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atif: meaning, origin, and history

To incline, to sympathize, through عَاطِف

Arabic

What Atif means

Atif belongs to the name family reached through Atif → عَاطِف. Its meaning is “to incline, to sympathize”.

Origin, language, and formation

Atif is used in Azerbaijani. Its origins include Arabic.

Atif comes through Arabic عَاطِف.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include عَاطِف.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 487 boys were recorded with the name Atif between 1973 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1981; its best national rank was #2,575 in 1981.

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 Atif?

Atif had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 132,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
176,742 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atif 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 2023 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 176,742 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atifs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atif was born before 1996 — so the typical Atif is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
487
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Atif 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (18)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,575
1981

Spellings of Atif

Atif is not the most common spelling — Tim is, with 24.7% against Atif's 0.14%.

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.

Where Atif is used

Across 1910–2025, Atif was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Atif has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Atif around the world

Where Atif 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #4,043
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Atif 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
#2,575
1981
Peak year
1981
18 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
487
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Atif

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

AtibaAtillaLatifAtilanoAtikshAtiimAtitAtiqAatifAtilioAtigunAbdullatif

Sibling names for Atif

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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