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Atsushi

Boys' name

Pure or kindness, honesty

Atsushi has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1924, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Atsushi, 1992

1 in 427,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Atsushi: meaning, origin, and history

Pure or kindness, honesty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Atsushi means

Atsushi means “pure or kindness, honesty”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Atsushi is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ä.t͡sɨᵝ.ɕi/ for Atsushi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 86 boys were recorded with the name Atsushi between 1917 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,658 in 1924.

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.

How common is Atsushi?

Atsushi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 427,000
9 of 3,839,369 births
Among boys only
1 in 222,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
295,695 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Atsushi 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 1992 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 295,695 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Atsushi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Atsushis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Atsushi was born before 1978 — so the typical Atsushi is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
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1920s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Atsushi 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 1924 (11)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,658
1924

Where Atsushi is used

Across 1910–2025, Atsushi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 70,789 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000

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. Atsushi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Atsushi around the world

Where Atsushi 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
    1997–1997
    #2,859
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Atsushi 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
#2,658
1924
Peak year
1924
11 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Atsushi

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

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Sibling names for Atsushi

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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