Atom
The boy's name Atom has been in the national records since 1970, with 1,057 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,379th. About 1,000 Atoms are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Atom
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,057
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 2,049th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,379th
- First recorded
- 1970
How old the living Atoms are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,057 babies given the name since 1970, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 820 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Atoms
- Atom Willard (born 1973)American drummer
People named Atom with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Atom is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Atom is most concentrated in California (6.1×), Texas (3.5×), Florida (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Atom peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.