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Atom

#3,383 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Atom has been given to 1,057 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,383 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Atom, 2025

1 in 97,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atom: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atom means

Atom is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Atom is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,057 boys were recorded with the name Atom between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,051 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,548 in 2020 to #3,383 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,530 in 2015 to #3,383 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 Atom?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,383
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atom 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atom. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atoms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atom was born before 2015 — so the typical Atom is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,057
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (515).

Is Atom 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
−217
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−835
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−853
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2017 (68)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,051
2017

Spellings of Atom

Atom is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 58.1% against Atom's 0.11%.

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 Atom is used

Across 1910–2025, Atom was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 163,901 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 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. Atom has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Atom around the world

Where Atom 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.

  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Atom by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,383
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 835
Best rank ever
#2,051
2017
Peak year
2017
68 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,057
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Atom

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

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Sibling names for Atom

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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