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Atli

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Father

Atli has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2019, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.

Babies named Atli, 2022

1 in 677,000

Atli over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Atli over time

In 2022, Atli went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20192022

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Atli: meaning, origin, and history

Father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atli means

Atli means “father”, associated with attô.

Origin, language, and formation

Atli is used in Faroese.

Atli comes through Old Norse Atli and Proto-Germanic *attô.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Atli is pronounced /ˈaʰtlɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Atli between 2019 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2019; its best national rank was #9,843 in 2019.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Atli between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2021; its best national rank was #13,683 in 2021.

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 Atli?

Atli had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atli 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atlis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atli was born before 2021 — so the typical Atli is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Atli 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 2019 (7)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,843
2019

Spellings of Atli

Atli is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 46.7% against Atli'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.

Atli 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
#9,843
2019
Peak year
2019
7 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,683
2021
Peak year
2021
6 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Atli

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

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Sibling names for Atli

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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