Atlas vs Atlee
American parents have registered 27,226 Atlases since 1880, against 2,126 Atlees. Atlas is still ahead, with 4,558 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Atlas Atlee
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Atlas for 67 years and Atlee for 50 years. The lead changed hands 28 times.
- 1883–1938 Atlas ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1939–1942 Atlee ahead
- 1943–1949 Atlas ahead
- 1950–1955 Atlee ahead
- 1956–1960 Atlas ahead
- 1961–2003 Atlee ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 2006–2025 Atlas ahead
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Atlas | Atlee | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 27,226 | 2,126 |
| Most in one year | 4,558 | 109 |
| Babies in 2025 | 4,558 | 72 |
| Estimated living today | 27,000 | 1,700 |
| Median age today | 3 | 10 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 75th boys | 3,151st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 75th | 3,450th |
| First recorded | 1883 | 1911 |
| Girls / boys | 1,333 / 25,893 | 722 / 1,404 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Atlees alive today are over 10; half the Atlases are over 3. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Atlas and Atlee.