Atticus
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #281 for boys in 2025, 1,208 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 1,310 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,322since 1881
Atticus over time
Rank among boys' names. Atticus has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #281 | 1,208 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #276 | 1,227 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #284 | 1,187 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #272 | 1,271 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #264 | 1,310 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #299 | 1,119 |
| 2019 | — | #309 | 1,096 | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #323 | 1,030 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #350 | 959 |
| 2016 | — | #362 | 919 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #347 | 980 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #369 | 855 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #404 | 738 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #409 | 711 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #466 | 577 |
| 2010 | — | #560 | 451 | |
| 2009 | — | #608 | 422 | |
| 2008 | — | #688 | 348 | |
| 2007 | — | #685 | 346 | |
| 2006 | — | #769 | 270 | |
| 2005 | — | #791 | 245 | |
| 2004 | — | #934 | 181 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,187 | 125 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,281 | 106 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,429 | 87 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,429 | 86 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,720 | 60 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,642 | 63 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,126 | 41 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,332 | 34 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,988 | 42 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,502 | 30 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #3,224 | 19 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,865 | 22 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Atticus! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Atticus is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#149 · 1 in 427
- Idaho#180 · 1 in 568
- Oregon#181 · 1 in 697
- Montana#204 · 1 in 670
- Oklahoma#216 · 1 in 799
Best ever in a state: #44 in Wyoming, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #149 | 8 | 1 in 427 |
| Idaho | #180 | 14 | 1 in 568 |
| Oregon | #181 | 26 | 1 in 697 |
| Montana | #204 | 6 | 1 in 670 |
| Oklahoma | #216 | 26 | 1 in 799 |
| Maine | #217 | 6 | 1 in 774 |
| New Hampshire | #222 | 5 | 1 in 918 |
| Washington | #229 | 40 | 1 in 919 |
| Colorado | #230 | 30 | 1 in 923 |
| New Mexico | #234 | 10 | 1 in 886 |
| Kansas | #244 | 17 | 1 in 931 |
| Kentucky | #244 | 20 | 1 in 1,100 |
| South Dakota | #245 | 5 | 1 in 838 |
| Indiana | #256 | 33 | 1 in 1,095 |
| Utah | #257 | 21 | 1 in 1,012 |
| Arkansas | #267 | 14 | 1 in 1,046 |
| Missouri | #272 | 27 | 1 in 1,170 |
| Wisconsin | #300 | 19 | 1 in 1,432 |
| North Carolina | #307 | 33 | 1 in 1,576 |
| Tennessee | #307 | 25 | 1 in 1,462 |
| California | #315 | 134 | 1 in 1,689 |
| Iowa | #315 | 12 | 1 in 1,315 |
| Massachusetts | #323 | 15 | 1 in 1,971 |
| Nevada | #331 | 9 | 1 in 1,509 |
| Georgia | #350 | 30 | 1 in 1,831 |
| Ohio | #353 | 32 | 1 in 1,884 |
| Virginia | #360 | 22 | 1 in 1,928 |
| Illinois | #374 | 33 | 1 in 2,012 |
| Pennsylvania | #377 | 27 | 1 in 2,216 |
| Texas | #382 | 93 | 1 in 2,022 |
| Minnesota | #385 | 14 | 1 in 2,028 |
| Connecticut | #389 | 6 | 1 in 2,401 |
| Michigan | #404 | 21 | 1 in 2,275 |
| Florida | #432 | 39 | 1 in 2,522 |
| Nebraska | #432 | 5 | 1 in 2,021 |
| Alabama | #446 | 10 | 1 in 2,318 |
| Mississippi | #471 | 6 | 1 in 2,312 |
| New Jersey | #478 | 14 | 1 in 2,971 |
| Arizona | #488 | 13 | 1 in 2,844 |
| Maryland | #526 | 9 | 1 in 3,090 |
| New York | #571 | 27 | 1 in 3,809 |
| Louisiana | #578 | 8 | 1 in 3,185 |
| South Carolina | #590 | 6 | 1 in 3,585 |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Atticus
- 5 spots since 2024 (#276 → #281)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#299 → #281)
- 66 spots since 2015 (#347 → #281)
- Biggest jump: 253 spots in 2004 (#1,187 → #934)
- Biggest drop: 15 spots in 2016 (#347 → #362)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 2021 at #264 (1,310 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,335 boys born in 2021 were named Atticus (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,414 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 45.4% of all boys named Atticus (8,316) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #866 (1881) | #866 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 5 | #2,544 (1912) | #2,544 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,595 |
| 1970s | 32 | #3,146 (1971) | #4,626 |
| 1980s | 63 | #3,630 (1983) | #4,737 |
| 1990s | 356 | #1,642 (1998) | #2,437 |
| 2000s | 2,216 | #608 (2009) | #980 |
| 2010s | 8,316 | #309 (2019) | #390 |
| 2020s | 7,322 | #264 (2021) | #279 |
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.
Atticus in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 357,020 of them was named Atticus, which outranked 14.2% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 1,956 of them was named Atticus, which outranked 97.5% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.