Atom
#3,379 for boys in 2025, 34 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,057since 1970
Atom over time
Rank among boys' names. Atom has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,379 | 34 |
| 2024 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #2,438 | 57 |
| 2021 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #2,394 | 56 |
| 2018 | #2,230 | 61 |
| 2017 | #2,049 | 68 |
| 2016 | #2,278 | 58 |
| 2015 | #2,528 | 49 |
| 2014 | #2,516 | 49 |
| 2013 | #2,225 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,415 | 52 |
| 2011 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,531 | 30 |
| 2009 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
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| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
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| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Atom! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Atom is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,024 · 1 in 36,310
Best ever in a state: #751 in Colorado, 2010.
Show every state
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| California | #2,024 | 7 | 1 in 36,310 |
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See more about Atom
- 218 spots since 2024 (#3,161 → #3,379)
- 833 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #3,379)
- 851 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #3,379)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2017 at #2,049 (68 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,220 boys born in 2017 were named Atom (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,238 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.7% of all boys named Atom (515) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 29 | #4,230 (1970) | #5,062 |
| 1980s | 42 | #3,966 (1982) | #5,159 |
| 1990s | 57 | #4,613 (1996) | #7,521 |
| 2000s | 165 | #3,399 (2009) | #5,430 |
| 2010s | 515 | #2,049 (2017) | #2,540 |
| 2020s | 249 | #2,438 (2022) | #3,030 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Atom in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 72,863 of them was named Atom, which outranked 74.4% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,646Yoseph29
- #3,646Zarion29
- #3,646Ziyad29
- #3,744Atom28
- #3,744Amer28
- #3,744Arie28
- #3,744Barret28
- #3,823Aaric27
- #3,823Adham27
- #3,823Adrain27
Tied with 78 names at #3,744; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.