Ato
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ato has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1975, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Ato, 1983
1 in 693,000
Ato over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ato?
Ato had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1983
- 1 in 693,000
- 5 of 3,463,011 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 358,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1983
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 480,076 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ato sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1983 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ato. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Atos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ato was born before 1975 — so the typical Ato is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 82.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 56
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 82.1% of all recorded uses (46).
Is Ato 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1975 (13)
- Years since peak
- 50
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.7% average annual change
Where Ato is used
Across 1910–2025, Ato was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Ato has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ato around the world
Where Ato 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 & Wales1999–1999#2,425in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ato by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ato
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ato
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.