Anatole
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Greek Anatolios, from anatolē 'east, sunrise'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anatɔl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anatole is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 64th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 885K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Greek Anatolios, from anatolē 'east, sunrise'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anatole is read(measured from records)
Anatole is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French74%
From Greek Anatolios, from anatolē 'east, sunrise'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
a male given name from Ancient Greek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Origine grecque, de anatolê, « aurore » ou « lever du soleil ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Greek name linked to dawn; equivalent of Latin Aurore.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English16%
Greek; from the east
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anatole counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 10K | Anatole | 235 |
| CM Cameroon | #667 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Anatole | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Anatole | 10 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #64 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Anatole | 9 |
| US United States | — | 376 | 1 in 885K | 358 | Anatole | 122 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 5 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anatole is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French: from the Late Latin personal name Anatolius , an adjectival derivative of Greek anatol sunrise, dawn. The name was popular among early Christians because of its optimistic associations. It was borne by an early bishop of Cahors and by a 9th-century Scottish bishop, who settled as a hermit at Salins.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anatole Malletb. 1837CHSwiss mechanical engineer (1837-1919)
- Édouard Lucasb. 1842FRnot in their usual nameFrench mathematician (1842–1891)
- Anatole Franceb. 1844FRFrench writer (1844–1924)
- Eugène Carrièreb. 1849FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter (1849-1906)
- Anatole de Monzieb. 1876FRFrench politician (1876–1947)
- Anatole Litvakb. 1902FRUkrainian-American filmmaker (1902–1974)
- Anatole de Grunwaldb. 1910GBBritish film producer (1910–1967)
- Anatole Daumanb. 1925FRFrench film producer (1925–1998)
- Anatole Collinet Makossob. 1965CGRepublic of the Congo politician
- Anatole Taubmanb. 1970CHSwiss-British actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 10K | #227 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 358 | #25,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18 | #25,276 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1951 | 15 | #58 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1931 | 10 | #564 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1971 | 5 | #126 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1953 | 5 | #145 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #449 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anatole mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Anatolios, from anatolē 'east, sunrise'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Anatole have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Anatole in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anatole.
- Is Anatole a male or female name?
- Anatole is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Anatole?
- A machine transcription gives /anatɔl/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Anatole?
- In the etymology graph, Анатолий, Anatoliy and Anatoly are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Anatole?
- In the United States, the national register counted 376 people named Anatole in 2020, about 1 in 885 thousand residents.
- How common is Anatole compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Anatole is the 64th most common given name of 363 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anatoleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anatole” — the 64th most common given name in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.